If you find this article helpful, you may want to dive a little deeper with this article also from Ray A entitled ‘What Are The Principles We’re Supposed To Practice’ – Bruce M The phrase which concludes the 12 Steps and lays out the path to our continuing recovery raises three key questions: what areContinue reading “Practice & Habit – By Ray A Author of Book ‘Practice These Principles’”
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Accepting Change – The Language Of Letting Go April 19th By Melody Beattie
The winds of change blow through our lives, sometimes gently, sometimes like a tropical storm. Yes, we have resting places—time to adjust to another level of living, time to get our balance, time to enjoy the rewards. We have time to catch our breath. But change is inevitable and desirable. Sometimes, when the winds ofContinue reading “Accepting Change – The Language Of Letting Go April 19th By Melody Beattie”
Becoming Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable – Each Day A New Beginning May 3rd Reflection
Love is a great beautifier. —Louisa May Alcott Meeting life head-on, with a smile, attracts people and situations to us. Our attitudes shape our world—which is not to deny that problems do occur. However, problems can be viewed as special opportunities for personal growth—as gifts, more or less, that we are ready to receive. WhenContinue reading “Becoming Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable – Each Day A New Beginning May 3rd Reflection”
Letting Go Of Perfectionism – Forgiving and Moving On May 23rd 2016 By Tian Dayton, PhD
Today I will not demand that my life be perfect in order for me to love it nor will I demand that all of my relationships be perfect for me to value and respect them. If I try to make my life and relationships perfect, I will be constantly engaged in a neurotic battle withContinue reading “Letting Go Of Perfectionism – Forgiving and Moving On May 23rd 2016 By Tian Dayton, PhD”
Results Of Prayer – As Bill Sees It #321
As the doubter tries the process of prayer, he should begin to add up the results. If he persists, he will almost surely find more serenity, more tolerance, less fear, and less anger. He will acquire a quiet courage, the kind that isn’t tension- ridden. He can look at “failure” and “success” for what theseContinue reading “Results Of Prayer – As Bill Sees It #321”
What Love Can We Transmit – Each Day A New Beginning March 29th Reflection
Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one’s own values in the person of another. —Ayn Rand The struggle to love one another may be a daily one for us, and it is made more difficult because we are still stumbling in our attempts at self-love. Many of us have livedContinue reading “What Love Can We Transmit – Each Day A New Beginning March 29th Reflection”
The Hole – Recovery Poem February 2006 By Bruce M.
I included this poem in the introduction to toxic shame. I hope it raises a consciousness of how shame may have influenced your life experience as well as pointing you to the many spiritual tools A.A. offers us. And perhaps it can serve as an encouragement to a devotion that feeds this internal yearning weContinue reading “The Hole – Recovery Poem February 2006 By Bruce M.”
Our Inner Beauty – Each Day A New Beginning March 22nd
Reared as we were in a youth and beauty oriented society, we measured ourselves by our ornamental value. —Janet Harris Rare is the person who doesn’t long for a svelte body, pretty teeth, a smooth complexion. Rare is the person who feels content, truly satisfied with their total person. We are often torn between wantingContinue reading “Our Inner Beauty – Each Day A New Beginning March 22nd”
The Total Picture Of Our Lives – Each Day A New Beginning March 1st
What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave. —Frances Marion Each experience we have plays its part in the total picture of our lives. The steps we have taken, the path we travel today, and our direction tomorrow are not by chance. There is a pattern. We each have a destiny. We mayContinue reading “The Total Picture Of Our Lives – Each Day A New Beginning March 1st”
Perfection—Only the Objective – As Bill Sees It #236
There can be no absolute humility for us humans. At best, we can merely glimpse the meaning and splendor of such a perfect ideal. Only God himself can manifest in the absolute; we human beings must needs live and grow in the domain of the relative. So we seek progress in humility for today. ********************Continue reading “Perfection—Only the Objective – As Bill Sees It #236”