Daily Recovery Readings – September 20
Just For Today September 20 Courage To Change “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” Serenity...
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Just For Today September 21 Prayer “Prayer takes practice, and we should remind ourselves that skilled people were not born with their skills.” Basic Text, p.45 Many of us came into recovery with no...
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NA Just For Today September 22 Keeping The Gift “Life takes on a new meaning when we open ourselves to this gift.” Basic Text, p.102 Neglecting our recovery is like neglecting any other gift we’ve...
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Just For Today September 23 Dealing With Gossip “In accordance with the principles of recovery, we try not to judge, stereotype, or moralize with each other.” Basic Text, p.11 Let’s face it: In...
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Just For Today September 24 A Growing Concept Of God “The only suggested guidelines are that this Power be loving, caring, and greater than ourselves. We don’t have to be religious to accept this idea....
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Just For Today September 25 The Fourth Step – Fearing Our Feelings “We may fear that being in touch with our feelings will trigger an overwhelming chain reaction of pain and panic.” Basic Text, p.29 A...
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Just For Today September 26 Seeing Ourselves In Others “It will not make us better people to judge the faults of another.” Basic Text, p.37 How easy it is to point out the faults of others! There’s a...
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Just For Today September 27 Right Back Up “There is something in our self-destructive personalities that cries for failure.” Basic Text, p.77 “Poor me; woe is me; look at me, my life is such a mess!...
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Just For Today September 28 Hope “Gradually as we become more God-centered than self centered, our despair turns to hope.” Basic Text, p.92 As using addicts, despair was our relentless companion. It...
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Just For Today November 21 Letting Our Defects Go “If [character defects] contributed to our health and happiness, we would not have come to such a state of desperation.” Basic Text pg. 34 Getting...
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November 27 Daily Reflections THE PERILS OF THE LIMELIGHT In the beginning, the press could not understand our refusal of all personal publicity. They were genuinely baffled by our insistence upon...
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November 28 Daily Reflections ATTRACTION, NOT PROMOTION Through many painful experiences, we think we have arrived at what that policy ought to be. It is the opposite in many ways of usual promotional...
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November 29 Daily Reflections ACTIVE GUARDIANS To us, however, it represents far more than a sound public relations policy. It is more than a denial of self-seeking. This Tradition is a constant and...
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Just For Today November 18 Self-discovery “The Tenth Step can help us correct our living problems and prevent their recurrence.” Basic Text p. 41 Our identities, how we think and feel, have been shaped...
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November 19 Daily Reflections “I WAS SLIPPING FAST” We A.A.’s are active folk, enjoying the satisfactions of dealing with the realities of life, . . . . So it isn’t surprising that we often tend to...
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Daily Reflections September 29 EXACTLY ALIKE Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright spot of our lives. -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 89 A man came to the meeting drunk,...
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Daily Reflections September 30 THE CIRCLE AND THE TRIANGLE The circle stands for the whole world of A.A., and the triangle stands for A.A.’s Three Legacies of Recovery, Unity, and Service. Within our...
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Daily Reflections October 2 THE ACID TEST As we work the first nine Steps, we prepare ourselves for the adventure of a new life. But when we approach Step Ten we commence to put our A.A. way of living...
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Daily Reflections October 3 SERENITY AFTER THE STORM Someone who knew what he was talking about once remarked that pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress. How heartily we A.A.’s can agree...
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Daily Reflections November 26 THE “WORTH” OF SOBRIETY Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions. -TWELVE AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 160 When I go shopping I...
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