Wer'e Making a Difference Foundation (People in recovery)

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This committee is AA based, but everyone is welcome... Thank you for your support & God Bless!

11/15/2025

Life, I love you. All is groovy.

Working the Twelve Steps is more than recovery from alcohol or other drug addiction. It's also about how to enjoy life.

Our illness pulled us toward death. Our spirits were dying, and maybe even our bodies were dying. Now our spirits are coming to life. We feel more alive than ever before. Our feelings are coming alive. We feel hope and faith, love and joy, and even hurt and fear. We notice the sunshine as well as the clouds. We know life needs both sunshine and rain, both joy and pain. We are alive!

Prayer for the Day
Higher Power, help me let go of my fears and enjoy life. I haven't always known how to enjoy life, but you can teach me. All life is from You, so teach me to be free in Your light and love.

Action for the Day
Right now, I can think of at least three things in life that make me feel like sunshine. What are they?

11/14/2025

Letting others do it themselves

Our new way of life is a self-development program. We must do it for ourselves. Sometimes an eager newcomer falls away after discovering that there are no magic wands, only hard work in spiritual and emotional development.

But we can't heal the world of addiction. We can't shove our cherished new ideals down anyone's throat (but we can hold out a hand when they decide they want to get well).

Do I let others do it for themselves?

Higher Power, may I realize that it "took what it took" for me and that it will be the same for others.

Today I will decide on these three personal boundaries for helping newcomers...

11/13/2025

A Work in Progress

Hello, you. Yes, you. Reading this book. Why are you so hard on yourself these days? Have you celebrated where you are on your journey lately, even if you aren't exactly where you want to be? Have you given yourself credit just for being here, for being willing, even just for having the awareness that you have some work to do? Having awareness is a big deal; don't underestimate its power.

You are a work in progress, and you may have a ways to go to reach your goals and live your dreams, but the keyword is progress. Every day that you think about wanting to live a different version of your life is a good day. Every day that you get up and get moving is a day to celebrate your strength and fortitude.

Things haven't always been easy, have they? Maybe even yesterday was hard. Being a work in progress, the other keyword in that phrase is work. Keep working. You are so much further along than you give yourself credit for.

The masterpiece that is our life is not complete. We keep moving forward with hope.

11/12/2025

Being human is difficult. Becoming human is a lifelong process. To be truly human is a gift.

The processes of becoming more human, becoming a real person, and finding spiritual enlightenment are very similar. They require slow growth over time. We can only follow these paths in small steps, one day or one hour at a time. Many of us grew up in families with an addicted parent. We, too, went to great excesses and have been abusive to ourselves and others. Because of these problems, we developed a distorted outlook on life. Now we still demand quick and complete fixes for recovery.

Our program says, "Look to this day." It is a difficult path to learn, but we only take it in small steps. There are no instant fixes for any human being. Yet when we surrender to the reality of life, we are given the gift of true humanity. We feel like real people, we love others, and we enjoy the pleasure of true contact with them.

I am grateful to be part of the process. Please help me give up my drive to control it.

11/11/2025

Veterans Helping Veterans in Recovery

Alcohol was my friend and comforter until it wasn't. We all have a bottom. Some are much deeper than others. As a military veteran, I had a hard time asking for help with recovery. We get training in self-reliance and courage to get things done.

As a former Marine, I was pleasantly surprised to find a former Marine drill instructor as my sponsor and counselor at my first visit to a veterans outreach program after reaching my bottom.

Life has so many better things for us when we ask for help. We are never alone.

Today, I will be okay with talking to another veteran, because I know I am not alone.

11/10/2025

Life deals more rigorously with some than others.

How often do we think about a friend? He sure is lucky! And probably just as usual, we say to ourselves, Why did that happen to me? It's not fair! The truth is, life isn't always fair. We don't all get the same experiences, the same lessons. But we each learn what we need to fulfill our destiny.

We have to learn to trust. Maybe a bike gets stolen or a friend moves away. It's not easy to accept such things as these, but we must all learn to understand and accept losses in our lives.

Perhaps we fail a test. The lesson we learn from this may be to study harder or to consider a different course of study in school. There are always reasons why things happen, but we don't have to know them.

Can I trust in the lessons of my failures today?

11/09/2025

AA Thought for the Day
In AA we're all through with lying, hangovers, remorse, and wasting money. When we were drinking, we were only half alive. Now that we're trying to live decent, honest, unselfish lives, we're really alive. Life has a new meaning for us, so that we can really enjoy it. We feel that we're some use in the world. We're on the right side of the fence, instead of on the wrong side. We can look the world in the face instead of hiding in alleys. We come into AA to get sober and if we stay long enough, we learn a new way of living. Am I convinced that no matter how much fun I got out of drinking, that life never was as good as the life I can build in AA?

Meditation for the Day
I want to be at one with the Divine Spirit of the universe. I will set my deepest affections on things spiritual not on things material. As we think, so we are. So I will think of and desire that which will help, not hinder, my spiritual growth. I will try to be at one with God. No human aspiration can reach higher than this.

Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may think love, and love will surround me. I pray that I may think health, and health will come to me.

11/08/2025

I just keep goin' up there and swingin' at 'em.

Even Babe Ruth had his share of strikeouts. On this recovery path, relapse is always a possibility, and we need to learn how to avoid it - and how to deal with it if it happens. What do many guys feel first when they relapse? Shame. This feeling may be unavoidable, but we do best if we don't stay there long. It is not what we deserve to feel, and it weakens us.

After a relapse, the first productive thing to do is to tell our recovery group and sponsor. When we do that, we expose our addictive and codependent side. That side may want to stay hidden and secret, but our recovery requires that we shine the light of day on it.

The second thing to do is ask ourselves what we can learn from this relapse. If we can learn the lessons it has to teach us, it is no longer a deficit but an asset that strengthens our healing. Some relapses happen when we fail to take care of ourselves; we get too worn out, too depleted, too needy. Some happen because we associate with others who support our addictive impulses. But after a strikeout, we can still go up there and swing at 'em again.

Today, I know once again that I am powerless over my addiction and my codependency.

11/07/2025

I can change only myself, but sometimes that is enough.

Happiness is more fleeting for some of us than for others. We may ponder this notion but fail to grasp the reason. However, careful attention to how the "happy ones" go through life will enlighten us. We will note how seldom they complain about others' actions. We will discover their willingness to accept others as they are. We will see that their attention is generally on the positive aspects of people and circumstances rather than on the negative.

We can join the parade of "happy ones" by letting go of our need to change people and situations that disturb us. Even when we are certain other people are wrong, we can let go of controlling them. Doing this means changing ourselves, of course. But this is the one thing in life we do have control over.

I will change myself if I think something needs changing today!

11/06/2025

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist to save us.

Sometimes we get so tangled up in beliefs, concepts, and definitions that we have no choice but to sit back and laugh at ourselves. If we don't at least occasionally find ourselves a little silly, we're in trouble. Our search for enlightenment and fulfillment, noble as it may seem, might actually come down to one thing - self-centeredness.

It's all well and good to seek spiritual truths, but many of us are looking in the wrong places. Do we know someone who could use a helping hand? Is a friend in trouble? Are we doing something to brighten someone's day? Our faith is empty if we put concern for our own souls before the needs of another.

When we overlook what we can do for our fellow travelers, we are missing the whole point. If we are busy being helpful, we don't need to worry about searching for God.

I don't need to look any further than the next person I can help.

11/05/2025

The Promises
The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it.

On page 83 of the Big Book, there begins a long paragraph worthy of study. The sentences in that paragraph have been referred to as "the promises."

We who are finding spiritual growth should frequently take time to examine the promises we find in working our program. We always discover that we are working toward a definite purpose for promised rewards.

Just before the listing of the promises, we read that we will be surprised at the spiritual progress we have made after finishing the Ninth Step. The Ninth Step concerns making direct amends.

We once believed that we needed a certain substance or behavior to avoid loneliness and boredom. The promises get rid of that idea. We are made aware that "God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free."

After completing the journey through the first nine Steps, the promises begin to unfold for me.

11/04/2025

When you're down and out, something always turns up - and it's usually the noses of your friends.

Friends ought to stand by us in adversity, and many do so. But if our addiction becomes public knowledge, we may find ourselves isolated. Friends drop away, lovers leave, children retreat into incomprehension.

Now we really need support. We know we cannot go it alone; we have been alone too long. We need the strength that comes from other people.

This is when we come to acknowledge the power of the group. Our program is based on the affection, strength, and caring of our fellow sufferers, many of whom have been in dark and lonely places, too. They understand; they are our brothers and sisters in sickness and in health. They understand and they do not condemn us; they have compassion that comes from fellowship in suffering. As we learn to trust them, we participate in a new communion of friendship that gives us strength and love.

I need support, and I am finding it through my program and in my group.

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