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

04/04/2026

Even today, my passionate sobriety is fueled by my freedom to drink. I choose not to.

Some of us view sobriety as a kind of self-deprivation, one that requires stern resolve and discipline - something that health or morality forces on those who choose it. Instead, we can view it as a person's choice to embrace the life he or she has always wanted, one that embodies freedom and a sense of deep connection to an inner self.

The choice to let go of an addictive substance or behavior is just that - a choice. No one can force it on anyone. If someone is struggling with the appropriateness of choosing recovery, chances are that his or her relationship to addiction needs to be addressed. People rarely raise such questions by accident!

We don't have to struggle. There is no enemy. We can willingly choose, for this day, our desire to live.

Today, I make a free choice to say yes to life.

04/03/2026

Feeling grateful is a matter of choice.

Getting stuck in a rut of criticizing other people and ourselves is far easier than adopting a grateful attitude. But we have the choice to be grateful at this very moment. For many of us, the question is how.

We have many things to be thankful for: We found a Twelve-Step program, which has helped us see new possibilities for ourselves. We no longer hang on to self-pity for days. We ask others for guidance when we feel hopeless. We turn to a Higher Power for help in big or tiny matters, which relieves us of heavy burdens. The gratitude list goes on.

Of course, we can stay stuck and ignore our blessings, but why should we? We can choose to be critical, or we can choose to feel grateful. It's up to us.

I will make a list of my blessings today. Keeping my focus on them will improve how I feel all day long.

04/02/2026

Reflection for the Day

Rare is the person in recovery who will dispute the fact that denial is a primary symptom of their disease. The program teaches us that addiction is the only disease that actually tells the afflicted person that they really aren't sick at all. Not surprisingly, then, our lives as addicts and alcoholics were characterized by endless rationalization, countless alibis, and, in short, a steadfast unwillingness to accept the fact that we were, without question, bodily and mentally different than other people. Have I conceded to my innermost self that I am truly powerless over alcohol or other drugs?

Today I Pray

May the program's First Step be not half-hearted for me, but a total admission of powerlessness over my addiction. May I rid myself of that first symptom - denial - which refuses to recognize any other symptom of my disease.

Today I Will Remember
Deny denial.

04/01/2026

Therapy
Going to seek therapy is not seen as the most macho thing to do. The thinking is, I should be able to take care of these issues myself.

There were a few reasons I was hesitant to go to therapy in recovery. For one, I had done therapy growing up, and I felt like it never helped me - actually, I felt like it made things worse. For another, I tried to see a therapist a couple of times when I was in the military for my mental health, and both times it was a negative experience where this guy looked at me and literally called me a loser and told me that I was wasting his time.

But in recovery, I have found therapy to be helpful. Nowadays, I see my therapist about once a month, where it used to be weekly. I think there was a period where we talked almost every day, and now I only talk to her like once a month, as I need to.

Today, I will recognize that therapy can be used as one of the tools of recovery.

03/31/2026

Being foolish
Many of us could say that what we have gained from this program we've gained in spite of ourselves. We get in our own way and often block ourselves from our Higher Power and fellow addicts. In the beginning, we did foolish things such as going to places where drugs or alcohol are used, deliberately setting ourselves up to take that first drink or drug.

Even when we make such mistakes, our Higher Power still accepts us. We can still choose to pray and ask for help - even in our foolish moments, in spite of ourselves.

Am I becoming less foolish these days?

Higher Power, help me become more aware of my own foolish thoughts, and help me avoid acting on them.

Today I will try to stay out of my own way by...

03/30/2026

Choose Your Circle
In some recovery communities, there is a saying that goes something like "Stick with the winners." On one level, I get it - it's intended to guide people seeking recovery to hang out with people who are already "succeeding" in their recovery.

However, I don't like the implication that there are winners and losers in recovery. Recovery isn't about judging other people's recovery. Anyone seeking or attempting recovery is worthy of respect and support, regardless of what they achieve (or don't) through their efforts.

I prefer to focus on the importance of surrounding ourselves with people who have positive energy. Positive energy is supportive, uplifting, inspiring, and contagious.

Creating or joining a circle of woman-identifying individuals whose energy is positive doesn't mean those individuals are perfect, consistently happy, or high achievers in all things. Positive energy also includes energy that is warm, forgiving, and compassionate. You will find your circle of women who are all of these things because you are a woman who is all of these things. Your recovery energy will attract your recovery circle.

As we choose our support system,
so too do we choose our energy.

03/29/2026

Anyone who lives art knows that psychoanalysis has no monopoly on the power to heal. Art and poetry have always been altering our ways of sensing and feeling - that is to say, altering the human body.

A man can lead a healing life on many levels. On one level, many of us have turned to healing professionals for help. That may strengthen our program and be very beneficial for many of our problems.

Relationships heal when they are loving, affirming, reliable, committed, and loyal. Nature heals: a tree, a walk through tall grass, a dry seedpod, or a potted plant gives life when we turn in its direction. Beauty heals: music, a poem, a novel, or a picture may move us to another plane and teach us about life. Meditation heals: solitude, quiet relaxation, prayer, and cosmic consciousness bring inner peace. Laughter heals. Physical activity heals. Doing something for others helps us. At the basic level, accepting ourselves as lovable men, just as we are, is the foundation for all healing.

The forces for renewal and wholeness are varied. May I reach out to them and be healed by them?

03/28/2026

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Our addiction closed our eyes to the beauty of the world. The longer our disease went on, the uglier we felt and acted. We looked at honesty as an enemy, not as a friend. In recovery, we start over.

As time goes on, we work to stay young in the program. We need to be beginners. We need the eyes of a child to stay sober. We might think we know how to stay sober. This thinking can be full of danger. Instead, we need to see staying sober as a gift. It's a gift that's given one day at a time. We need to stay open to the beauty of the Twelve Steps and the gifts they hold.

Prayer for the Day
Higher Power, help me stay a beginner in this program. Have me see the beauty of the world. My addiction made me old. Help me regain my youth.

Action for the Day
Today I'll study the children I meet. I'll learn much from their gentle beauty.

03/27/2026

We like someone because we love someone.
Although...

Families are like scissors. They are joined in the middle but often spread wide apart, moving away from each other. When we're not feeling close to other family members - when it's hard even to like them - it seems as though we'll never come together again.

But pity the scrap of paper that comes between our scissor blades! The scissors works together again and slices the trouble clean. When trouble threatens our family, we can slice it through if we move together in love and acceptance.

No matter our small differences, we are part of the same living organism, in a way. The family we live in has been together for many generations, and we are just the most recent members. When we look at one another, we see the products of centuries of love.

When l feel distant from my family, can I locate where we are still joined together?

03/26/2026

AA Thought for the Day
We're in AA for two main reasons: to keep ourselves sober and to help others stay sober. It's a well-known fact that helping others is a big part of keeping sober. It's also been proven that it's very hard to stay sober all by yourself. A lot of people have tried it and failed. They come to a few AA meetings and then stay sober alone for a few months, but usually they eventually get drunk. Do I know that I can't stay sober successfully alone?

Meditation for the Day
Look by faith into that place beyond space or time where God dwells and whence you came and to which you shall eventually return. "Look unto Him and be saved." To look beyond material things is within the power of everyone's imagination. Faith's look saves you from despair. Faith's look saves you from worry and care. Faith's look brings a peace beyond all understanding. Faith's look brings you all the strength you need. Faith's look gives you a new and vital power and a wonderful peace and serenity.

Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may have faith's look. I pray that by faith I may look beyond the now to eternal life.

03/25/2026

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

From the day we are born, our lives are risky. We may be intimidated by a task or a challenge before us. Working on some of the Twelve Steps is a risk. When we face these challenges, we can draw courage from looking at other risks we have taken and perhaps even enjoyed.

For instance, most sports are exciting because they play on the possibility of winning or losing. Falling in love is a risk. Climbing a mountain is a risk. Building something with our hands is a risk. Yet we enjoy the pleasure of stepping into these risks. Taking a risk makes us feel alive.

When we think about these enjoyable adventures, where risks add to the excitement, we can use that feeling as a model for approaching the risks that we avoid. Perhaps we need to talk to our spouse or partner about something hard to say. Perhaps we need to make amends to someone for a past wrong, and we don't know how we will be received. Perhaps our greatest challenge is to subdue our own will for something and give it over to the care of our Higher Power.

Today, I will recall the risks that make me feel alive and move forward with those things I have been avoiding.

03/24/2026

I can't expect you to share yourself if I can't do the same.

We have been told we benefit from sharing our stories with others. However, most of us have shared intimate details of our lives in the past, only to have them repeated all over town. We may have decided that nothing was safe to share.

Now we are asked once again to share our secrets. What seems even stranger is that we're asked to tell them to people whose last names we don't even know. How crazy this seems when we first enter a Twelve-Step program.

Until we do it, however, we will not reap the benefits that are in store. We can only discover how much like others we really are by telling them about us and then listening while they share similar stories. The intimacy that follows transforms our lives. Our time for self-disclosure has come. Let's rejoice and reap the rewards.

I will tell a trusted friend who I really am today. I can count on affirmation and acceptance if I choose my friend well.

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