From 100 Blessings Every Day: What you did is not who you are. What you now do-and do with the rest of your life-is what’s most important. Now that you are ready to forgive others, be ready to forgive yourself. While in recovery, you are still an addicted person-something you will always be-active addiction is part of [...]
Continue Reading...You don’t stumble because you are weak, but because you think yourself strong. Such all-or-nothing people we are. If we aren’t feeling woefully inadequate and worthless, then we tend to get a bit too full of ourselves and we start to think that we’re bullet-proof. But we’re not. How often and how painfully have we [...]
Continue Reading...Often we are led to believe that we all reach the path of spiritual renewal in much the same way. We think that spiritual journeys should be the same for all people whether they are in recovery from an addiction or not. As a result, when we see the liberating feeling that it can offer [...]
Continue Reading...Sadly, most people today speak with little or no regard for carrying out the words they say to someone else. It’s incredible just how often someone will say something with which he has absolutely no intention whatsoever of following through. Since the Big Book is a guidebook for living, how does keeping your word lead [...]
Continue Reading...To most people, it’s clear that God gave each of us certain unique strengths and talents whereby certain things just seem to come “naturally” to us. But it is also equally clear that God didn’t give us certain skills and strengths. Whether we’re not good at math, directions, instruction manuals, drawing, or organization — we all [...]
Continue Reading...Perhaps the reason why you can find God wherever you go is because God is with you wherever you go. Like it or not, you can’t escape God. I tried to do so, but I soon learned that my journeys-sometimes as far as halfway across the world-came to naught. God was there too. Some say [...]
Continue Reading...100 Blessings Every Day Fear and panic distort our ability to think clearly. Decisions made in haste are often ones that we come to regret. Trouble is trouble enough. We don’t have to make things worse by letting it overwhelm us. Situations that seem so terribly urgent may just be God’s way of telling us [...]
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