✌️🫶Thought for Today

What worries you, masters you.
 ~John Locke

Master your FEAR, and the world is yours.   (thanks Stu K.)

Life is such a precious thing
 
 You are a miracle with every smile you bring
 
 yes the sun will rise and set, that is a blessing from above 
 
we all walk with hour glasses unsure of when we’ll go—so we love 
 
yes lov…[Read more]

Big Book Quote
“The alcoholic is like a tornado roaring his way through the lives of others. Hearts are broken. Sweet relationships are dead. Affections have been uprooted. Selfish and inconsiderate habits have kept the home in turmoil. We feel a man is unthinking when he says that sobriety is enough”

❤️‍🩹Courage To Change
 
As we let go of obsession, worry, and focusing on everyone but
ourselves, many of us were bewildered by the increasing calmness
of our minds.

We knew how to live in a state of crisis, but it often
took a bit of adjustment to become comfortable
with stillness.

(The
price of serenity was the quieting of the constant…[Read more]

✌️Big Book Quote🫶

“Much to our relief, we discovered we did not need to consider another’s conception of God. Our own conception, however inadequate, was sufficient to make the approach and to effect a contact with Him.

((As soon as we admitted the possible existence of a Creative Intelligence, a Spirit of the Universe underlying the to…[Read more]

⚠️♻️The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and
not to twist them to fit our own image.”
Thomas Merton

Thought for Today

“In my own case, the foundation stone of freedom from fear is that of faith: a faith that, despite all worldly appearances to the contrary, causes me to believe that I live in a universe that m…[Read more]

📕Big Book Quote 📖

“. . . I humbly offered myself to God, as I then understood Him, to do with me as He would. I placed myself unreservedly under His care and direction. I admitted for the first time that of myself I was nothing; that without Him I was lost. I ruthlessly faced my sins and became willing to have my new-found Friend take them away,…[Read more]

⏳ This day I choose to spend in perfect peace.    — A Course in Miracles

Today, let’s be gentle and kind.

 ((Let’s talk to ourselves with love and respect)).

Today, let’s be clear in how we think, speak, and act. 

And if we start to get mixed up, ((let’s stop thinking and listen to our Higher Power’s voice)).

Today, we know that we have…[Read more]

Big Book Quote

“Everybody knows that those in bad health, and those who seldom play, do not laugh much. So let each family play together or separately as much as their circumstances warrant. We are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free.”

Big Book Quote

“Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one. They are restless, irritable and discontented, unless they…[Read more]

Big Book Quote

“For the type of alcoholic who is able and willing to get well, little charity, in the ordinary sense of the word, is needed or wanted. The men who cry for money and shelter before conquering alcohol, are on the wrong track.”

Big Book Quote

“If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us. They may be the dubious luxury of normal men, but for alcoholics these things are poison.”

Big Book Quote

“If we are sorry for what we have done, and have the honest desire to let God take us to better things, we believe we will be forgiven and will have learned our lesson. If we are not sorry, and our conduct continues to harm others, we are quite sure to drink. We are not theorizing. These are facts out of our experience.”

🙏🏻🙏🏻Keep It Simple

Where there is no vision, a people perish.    — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Working our program teaches us to see things more clearly.

(We learn to look at who we really are).

At first, we’re scared to see ourselves. But it turns out okay, even though were not perfect.

We also begin to see others more clearly.

We see goo…[Read more]

✌️🫶🤞Thoughts For The Day
Fear

“The practice of A.A.’s Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions in our personal lives also brought incredible releases from fear of every description, despite the wide prevalence of formidable personal problems.

When fear did persist, we knew it for what it was, and under God’s grace we became able to handle it.

We…[Read more]

🪶Twenty-Four Hours A Day

A.A. Thought for the Day

“When many hundreds of people are able to say that (the consciousness) of (the presence of God) is today the most important fact of their lives, they present ((a powerful reason why one should have faith)).

When we see others solve their problems by simple reliance upon some Spirit of the un…[Read more]

Big Book Quote

“The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed.”
Alcoholics Anonymous 4th Edition
More About Alcoholism, Page 30

“Perhaps there is a better way – we think so. For we are now on a different basis; the basis of trusting and relying upon God. We trust infinite God rather than our finite selves. We…[Read more]

Big Book Quote

“We needed to ask ourselves but one short question. ‘Do I now believe, or am I even willing to believe, that there is a Power greater than myself?’ As soon as a man can say that he does believe, or is willing to believe, we emphatically assure him that he is on his way. It has been repeatedly proven among us that upon this simple…[Read more]

🫶🐪Just For Today!
 
Simple Beauty
From “A Prayer for All Seasons:”
 
“The power of is overwhelming in that its simple beauty parallels the A.A. Fellowship. There are times when I get stuck while reciting it, but if I examine the section which is troubling me, I find the answer to my problem . . .

((By accepting life as it is, I gain sere…[Read more]

Big Book Quote

“Opinions vary considerably as to why the alcoholic reacts differently from normal people. We are not sure why, once a certain point is reached, little can be done for him. We cannot answer the riddle.”