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04/28/2026

Tuesday, April 28

Good morning! Hope that everyone has a TERRIFIC Tuesday! We are open from 9-5 today. Drop In and see us, have some coffee, grab some lunch, get some resources, and make the decision to change your life. We can help you get into treatment. We can even get you to treatment and support you through that process! Come on in and have a conversation.

NA 12:30
NA 6:00

28 April

Who really gets better?

Page 122

"We can also use the steps to improve our attitudes. Our best thinking got us into trouble. We recognize the need for change."

Basic Text, p. 55

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When new in recovery, most of us had at least one person we just couldn't stand. We thought that person was the rudest, most obnoxious person in the program. We knew there was something we could do, some principle of recovery we could practice to get over the way we felt about this person--but what? We asked our sponsor for guidance. We were probably assured, with an amused smile, that if we just kept coming back, we'd see the person get better. That made sense to us. We believed that the steps of NA worked in the lives of everyone. If they could work for us, they could work for this horrible person, too.

Time passed, and at some point we noticed that the person didn't seem as rude or obnoxious as before. In fact, he or she had become downright tolerable, maybe even likeable. We got a pleasant jolt as we realized who had really gotten better. Because we had kept coming back, because we had kept working the steps, our perception of this person had changed. The person who'd plagued us had become "tolerable" because we'd developed some tolerance; he or she had become "likeable" because we'd developed the ability to love.

So who really gets better? We do! As we practice the program, we gain a whole new outlook on those around us by gaining a new outlook on ourselves.

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Just for Today: As I get better, so will others. Today, I will practice tolerance and try to love those I meet.

04/28/2026

Anyone know who this sweet girl in Ravenswood belongs too! Please contact Shelter if you know.

04/24/2026

Friday, April 24

Good morning and Happy FriYAY!!!! We are open from 9-5 today. Stop in and see us, get some resources for the weekend, have some coffee, grab some lunch, and hit a meeting.

AA 12:30
AA 7:00 Speaker Meeting

LEARNING TO LOVE OURSELVES

Alcoholism was a lonely business, even though we were surrounded by people who loved us. . . . We were trying to find emotional security either by dominating or by being dependent upon others. . . . We still vainly tried to be secure by some unhealthy sort of domination or dependence.

-AS BILL SEES IT, p. 252

When I did my personal inventory I found that I had unhealthy relationships with most people in my life—my friends and family, for example. I always felt isolated and lonely. I drank to dull emotional pain.

It was through staying sober, having a good sponsor and working the Twelve Steps that I was able to build up my low self-esteem. First the Twelve Steps taught me to become my own best friend, and then, when I was able to love myself, I could reach out and love others.

04/24/2026

Anyone missing their dog it is at Ruben’s Trailer Park in Cottageville!

04/23/2026

Thursday, April 23

Good morning! Hope that everyone has a TERRIFIC Thursday! We are open from 9-5 today. Drop In and see us, have some coffee, grab a bite to eat, hit a meeting, and get some resources.

NA 12:30
NA 6:00

23 April

A God of our own understanding

Page 117

"Many of us understand God to be simply whatever force keeps us clean."

Basic Text, p. 25

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Some of us enter recovery with a working understanding of a Higher Power. For a lot of us, however, "God" is a troublesome word. We may doubt the existence of any sort of Power greater than ourselves. Or we may remember uncomfortable experiences with religion and shy away from "the God stuff."

Starting over in recovery means we can start over in our spiritual life, too. If we're not comfortable with what we learned when we were growing up, we can try a different approach to our spirituality. We don't have to understand everything all at once or find the answers to all our questions right away. Sometimes it's enough just to know that other NA members believe and that their belief helps keep them clean.

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Just for Today: All I have to know right now about my Higher Power is that it is the Power that helps keep me clean.

04/22/2026

Wednesday, April 22

Good morning!!! Hope that everyone has a WONDEROUS Wednesday! We are open from 9-5 today. Drop-In and see us! Make today the first day of the rest of your life!!!

NA 12:30
AA 7:00

NEW SOIL . . . NEW ROOTS

Moments of perception can build into a lifetime of spiritual serenity, as I have excellent reason to know. Roots of reality, supplanting the neurotic underbrush, will hold fast despite the high winds of the forces which would destroy us, or which we would use to destroy ourselves.

-AS BILL SEES IT, p. 173

I came to A.A. green—a seedling quivering with exposed taproots. It was for survival but it was a beginning. I stretched, developed, twisted, but with the help of others, my spirit eventually burst up from the roots. I was free. I acted, withered, went inside, prayed, acted again, understood anew, as one moment of perception struck. Up from my roots, spirit-arms lengthened into strong, green shoots: high-springing servants stepping skyward.

Here on earth God unconditionally continues the legacy of higher love. My A.A. life put me "on a different footing . . . [my] roots grasped a new soil" ( Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 12).

04/21/2026

Tuesday, April 21

Good morning and Happy Tuesday! We are open from 9-5 today. Stop in and have some coffee, grab a snack, hit a meeting, and get some resources.

NA 12:30
NA 6:00

21 April

Communicating Respect

Page 115

"When we regard one another with respect, we open the door to a different kind of communication."

Living Clean, Chapter 7, "Principles, Practice, and Perspective"

Outside NA, in our specific cultures or neighborhoods, respect was often something we demanded of others or felt we were entitled to based on our status in the community or our egos. Our communication around respect had one purpose: getting our own way. What mattered was how superbly articulate we were about our beliefs, our willingness to go to battle for every one of our opinions, and the sheer loudness of our voice. And if we weren't among those with status or volume, we usually gave in to their demands.

Inside NA, practicing respect as a spiritual principle has nothing to do with getting our own way or handing over our power to those who command it. Regarding others with respect includes paying attention to how we are communicating--with our voice, facial expressions, body language, or our silence--and then honestly examining how people hear and respond to us. "If I approach another member with my claws out," one member shared, "I shouldn't be surprised if they react by slashing back."

Ideally, practicing respect results in more inclusivity of opinions and more equality in participation. Communicating our respect prioritizes listening over speaking, our common welfare over selfishness. We try to make space for others rather than cutting them out. In NA, respect breeds trust, safety, and well-being--not fear, fragility, and oversized egos.

This perspective takes plenty of work--and plenty of unlearning. For one thing, we must work against our own feelings of superiority, inferiority, or indifference. A member who's been around for a while described their experience: "Working the NA Steps has made my own beliefs less fragile. I don't have to defend them as fiercely as I did before. And I don't have to express my opinion about everything." Just because someone else's or the group's opinion is different from ours doesn't mean they're wrong. And if they are wrong, is this a battle that must be fought, or can we make peace and be part of a solution?

How am I communicating respect to my fellow NA members today? How am I being respectful to the meeting, to the group's conscience, to the Traditions, to NA as a whole?

04/20/2026

Monday, April 20

Good morning and Happy Monday! We are open from 9-5 today. Stop in and see us, grab some resources, have some coffee, have some lunch, and make a recovery plan.

NA 12:30

20 April

Detachment

Page 114

"Addiction is a family disease, but we could only change ourselves."


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Many of us come from severely damaged families. At times, the insanity that reigns among our relatives feels overwhelming. Sometimes we feel like packing our bags and moving far, far away.

We pray that our family members will join us in recovery but, to our great sadness, this does not always happen. Sometimes, despite our best efforts to carry the message, we find that we cannot help those we hold most dear. Our group experience has taught us that, frequently, we are too close to our relatives to help them. We learn it is better to leave them in our Higher Power's care.

We have found that when we stop trying to settle the problems of family members, we give them the room they need to work things out in their own lives. By reminding them that we are not able to solve their problems for them, we give ourselves the freedom to live our own lives. We have faith that God will help our relatives. Often, the best thing we can give our loved ones is the example of our own ongoing recovery. For the sake of our family's sanity and our own, we must let our relatives find their own ways to recover.

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Just for Today: I will seek to work my own program and leave my family in the care of a Higher Power.

04/19/2026

Sunday, April 19

Good morning all! Hope that everyone is getting the most out of their weekend. We are closed today.

AA 7:00 p.m.

BROTHERS IN OUR DEFECTS

We recovered alcoholics are not so much brothers in virtue as we are brothers in our defects, and in our common strivings to overcome them.

-AS BILL SEES IT, p. 167

The identification that one alcoholic has with another is mysterious, spiritual—almost incomprehensible. But it is there. I "feel" it. Today I feel that I can help people and that they can help me.

It is a new and exciting feeling for me to care for someone; to care what they are feeling, hoping for, praying for; to know their sadness, joy, horror, sorrow, grief; to want to share those feelings so that someone can have relief. I never knew how to do this—or how to try. I never even cared. The Fellowship of A.A., and God, are teaching me how to care about others.

04/17/2026

Friday, April 17

Good morning and HAPPY FRIDAY!!! We are open from 9-5 today! Stop in and see us. Grab some resources, have some coffee, have a conversation with one of our peers, learn about ALL of the exciting services that we offer, and let us help you make a recovery plan.

AA 12:30

LOVE AND FEAR AS OPPOSITES

All these failings generate fear, a soul-sickness in its own right

-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 49

""Fear knocked at the door; faith answered; no one was there."" I don't know to whom this quote should be attributed, but it certainly indicates very clearly that fear is an illusion. I create the illusion myself.

I experienced fear early in my life and I mistakenly thought that the mere presence of it made me a coward. I didn't know that one of the definitions of ""courage"" is ""the willingness to do the right thing in spite of fear."" Courage, then, is not necessarily the absence of fear.

During the times I didn't have love in my life I most assuredly had fear. To fear God is to be afraid of joy. In looking back, I realize that, during the times I feared God most, there was no joy in my life. As I learned not to fear God, I also learned to experience joy.

04/15/2026

Wednesday, April 15

Good morning! Hope that everyone has a WONDEROUS Wednesday! We are open from 9-5 today. Drop-In and see us. Grab some resources!

NA 12:30
AA 7:00

THE BO***GE OF RESENTMENTS
. . harboring resentment is infinitely grave. For then we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the spirit.

-AS BILL SEES IT, p. 5

It has been said, "Anger is a luxury I cannot afford." Does this suggest I ignore this human emotion? I believe not. Before I learned of the A.A. program, I was a slave to the behavior patterns of alcoholism. I was chained to negativity, with no hope of cutting loose.

The Steps offered me an alternative. Step Four was the beginning of the end of my bo***ge. The process of "letting go" started with an inventory. I needed not be frightened, for the previous Steps assured me I was not alone. My Higher Power led me to this door and gave me the gift of choice. Today I can choose to open the door to freedom and rejoice in the sunlight of the Steps, as they cleanse the spirit within me.

04/15/2026

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