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!

03/13/2026

Communication leads to community - that is, to understanding, intimacy, and mutual valuing.

We have all thought, "If I tell the innermost things about myself, I will be rejected or put down." Most real communication actually creates the opposite of what we fear. In this program, when we lowered our barriers and let our brothers and sisters know us better, they liked us more, and our bonds became stronger. Are we concerned today about an intimate relationship? The way to deepen intimacy is to let ourselves be known. When talking about feelings, we need to emphasize those that make us feel most vulnerable.

The other side of communication is listening. In listening, our task is to hear without judgment and without trying to provide an answer or a cure for every pain. To express ourselves to others, to be fully understood, and to know we are understood will lift our hope and self-esteem.

Today, I can make contact with people in my life by revealing my feelings to them and listening to what they are saying.

03/12/2026

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Each of us has been given recovery. Now it's up to each of us what we do with it. At times, we'll work hard and grow quickly. At other times, our growth will be slower. This is okay. We're not in a race. Our pace is not important. What is important is that we're always working on our recovery.

We're all part of a fellowship, a caring group. We're one of many. But each of us is important. Each one of us will have a special way to work our programs through our readings, friends, meetings, and what we know of how life works. Each of us puts together a miracle of recovery. We then take our miracle and share it with others, so they can build their miracle.

Prayer for the Day
Higher Power, help me work at growing. Help me be a person who is an important part of a group.

Action for the Day
Today I'll work at seeing myself as very important. I'll remind myself that others' recovery also depends on my recovery. I am needed.

03/11/2026

Where is the yesterday that worried us so?

In the fairy tale The Last Dream of the Old Oak Tree, the oak tree felt sorry for the day-fly. The day-fly only lives for one day, and the tree was already 365 years old. But the day-fly was so enjoying his one day that the tree's sympathy puzzled him. The day-fly said to the tree, "You may have thousands of my days, but I have thousands of moments to be pleased and happy in."

And so the day-fly continued to dance in the sun and smell the clover and honeysuckle. His day ended as happily as he spent it, and he settled down on a blade of grass.

If all of us could approach our day the way the day-fly does, as though this were our only day, we would spend less time worrying about yesterday and tomorrow.

How can I show my gratitude for the gift of this day?

03/10/2026

AA Thought for the Day
You get the power to overcome drinking through the fellowship of other alcoholics who have found the way out. You get power by honestly sharing your past experience through personal witness. You get power by coming to believe in a Higher Power, the Divine Principle in the universe which can help you. You get power by working with other alcoholics. In these four ways, thousands of alcoholics have found all the power they needed to overcome drinking. Am I ready and willing to accept this power and work for it?

Meditation for the Day
The power of God's spirit is the greatest power in the universe. Our conquest of each other - the great kings and conquerors, the conquest of wealth, the leaders of the money society - all amount to very little in the end. But he who conquers himself is greater than he who conquers a city. Material things have no permanence. But God's spirit is eternal. Everything really worthwhile in the world is the result of the power of God's spirit.

Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may open myself to the power of God's spirit. I pray that my relationships with others may be improved by this spirit.

03/09/2026

Between stimulus and response, man has the freedom to choose.

Ancient wise men first identified that crucial gap in time between the moment we first sense something and the response we give. They taught meditation principles focusing on this distinction and spent hours in contemplation that led to deep inner peace and serenity. Most of us, in our busy lives, do not devote hours and days to that focus, but we can learn to practice the crucial wisdom of chosen response instead of instant reflex.

Reactivity is like a knee-jerk response. It comes from a primitive part of our brains. If we haven't learned of that brief gap between the stimulus and our response, then we don't even know we have a choice. We might say, "I couldn't help it. If he hadn't done that, I wouldn't have done what I did." At that point, we are still immature and weak. When we gain awareness of this tiny bit of time to choose the best response, we step from immaturity into the strength of a grown man.

Today, I will become more aware of the moment of choice between a stimulus and my response.

03/08/2026

The child that lives in all of us is always willing to take the blame.

We sometimes wonder if all women feel as we do. How many times do we apologize for situations that go awry, even those we had no part in? When conflicts erupt, why is it so easy to assume it's our fault? When we fear we aren't adequate as women, it's a small step to accepting blame for every ripple in a circumstance. We become obsessed with trying to control the uncontrollable, and then we think we're at fault when we fail.

Mood-altering substances appealed to us because they temporarily made us feel good about ourselves. Because we're human, we don't always feel good about ourselves. But now we have friends we can talk to in the most intimate way and program tools that can improve our attitude. The longer we're sober, the more obvious it is that our attitude is the culprit. Changing it changes everything!

I am not to blame for anyone else's problems today. Accepting blame was a habit. Cultivating a better attitude can be a habit too.

03/07/2026

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and his compulsion is our liberation.

One reason it's so hard for us to love others as God loves us is that we have no standard in our own experience to go by. The closest thing to a human standard is the ideal love of a parent for a child. God's love exceeds that. The kind of love that God offers us is beyond our comprehension. It is unconditional. We know this because of the innumerable times we have betrayed God, gone back on our own word, and cursed God - only to be welcomed back whenever we're ready, and to find ourselves blessed and comforted.

Someone said, "God has to love us; it's His job." Our program has taught us our "job" is to love others unconditionally, too. We don't have to understand God's love; it's impossible. But if we are to find peace, we do have to try our best to imitate it.

Today I will try my best to love others unconditionally, as God does.

03/06/2026

The Sixth Promise
We shall lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.

We came into the program as experts in dishonesty, deceit, envy, and self-pity. Selfishness was an attitude that fitted us well. We were shameless in the ways we took advantage of other people. The victims of our selfishness most often were those who loved us and tried to help us.

Our self-importance was based on unreality and was the effect of addicted behavior. We engaged in far-out thinking that reached the heights of fantasy. Our self-centeredness and selfishness developed within all of us a sick ego that turned into a powerhouse of grandiosity. The arrogance of an ego-driven addict was a drawback to willingness. In such a state of being, only miracles could help us.

In my addiction, my selfishness made me a "me-first" person. In recovery, I am interested in the well-being of others. This has caused my self-interest to disappear.

03/05/2026

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

In our addiction, we tend to think of other people as better than ourselves. We are quick to admire, to idealize. We are convinced that good people are good because they are born that way. And we, of course, are rotten.

But goodness comes through experience, and experience includes setbacks and even disasters. It's not so much what happens to us as the way we cope that makes the difference. What might be considered as failure can bring us to a deeper understanding of ourselves and other people.

Wisdom cannot be taught or transmitted; it comes directly from our personal experience in the world. And there we learn that goodness is a value extracted from the ordeals and adventures along our particular path. We can be quietly proud of our goodness.

I believe in my goodness and value as a member of the human family.

03/04/2026

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me all at once.

We all need a little humor in our lives and in the way we work our program. For example, one of the first things we learn in recovery is to take "One day at a time." This is very good advice, so we practice living that way. Most days it works pretty well.

But once in a while it seems like we can't even handle one day. We just can't handle everything that happens along the way, plus carry out our own plans for the day. Perhaps we have to stop and change a flat tire. Or a friend calls and needs help. Or one of our kids has a meltdown in the grocery store. Or maybe all those things happen in the same day! That kind of day used to be our perfect excuse to get high.

Now it's a perfect excuse to take a deep breath, call our sponsor or a friend, and have a good laugh about it. Now we realize that our days are not really ours. We can plan them, but we can't really control them. That's just the way it is, and it's okay.

Prayer for the Day
Higher Power, please help me to pay attention to the most important things today. And please, send a few good laughs my way!

Today's Action
I will find a few things to laugh about today.

03/03/2026

I did it again! I feel terrible! I am terrible!

Those thoughts were expressed in anguish at a meeting of adult children. The speaker was a young man who had been sober for three years. Abused as a child, Jim had been married while drinking and divorced while sober. After the pain of the breakup, Jim had resolved never to get involved again.

But Jim got lonely as time went on. He wanted love as we all want love. Then he met Julie. They fell in love. Jim became terrified. What he wanted most was what he feared most. The closer Julie came, the more Jim panicked.

Then one night, Jim reported, he picked a fight. "For no reason," he said. He cruelly pushed Julie away. He now wonders if Julie will ever talk to him again.

But there was a reason for the fight. Jim is at his adult child crossroads. Old patterns or new truths? Life and love, or withdrawal and death? We all know where the old ways get us. We understand, and we sympathize. But the time comes when each of us has to choose. Which way will it be?

Today, I will stand up against despair. I will have faith in myself in spite of my repeated failings.

03/02/2026

Service is the rent you pay for a room on this earth.

None of us could have reached this day entirely on our own. Each of us can look back at moments in our lives when we've been helped or encouraged by another person. A family member, teacher, sponsor, or friend may have offered us mentoring or unconditional love. The words or example of a stranger, a public figure, an artist, or a writer may have afforded us inspiration at just the moment when we needed encouragement.

We can do no less for others as we continue on our journeys. We do not have to take responsibility for others' lives, nor should we disregard our own needs. But there are many ways we can make a difference, each according to our preference. We can offer time and talent to our community, recovery program, or family of choice. We can share our experience, strength, and hope with individuals or groups. We can show up and do some of the work that's necessary to maintain the institutions that have offered so much to us. We can keep it by giving it away.

Today, I express my gratitude through service, freely given.

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