Broken Chains Ministries

11/27/2025

Thought for the day: Kinda hard to appreciate what you have if we are always looking for that next thing to make us happy.....Our happiness is generated from the inside out....not the outside in. If I'm not happy with who I am then my life will be filled with things to distract me...from me. I will put all this pressure on people, places and things to do for me what I'm unwilling to do for myself......

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11/26/2025

Thought for the day: I would rather endure the pain of change than the pain of staying the same.....To stay the same means there is no end to the pain that is being generated....To change means that the pain at some point will end if I endure and become willing to work thru it...

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11/25/2025

As Bill Sees It

Three Choices, p. 327

The immediate object of our quest is sobriety--freedom from alcohol and from all its baleful consequences. Without this freedom, we have nothing at all.

Paradoxically, though, we can achieve no liberation from the alcohol obsession until we become willing to deal with those character defects which have landed us in that helpless condition. In this freedom quest, we are always given three choices.

A rebellious refusal to work upon our glaring defects can be an almost certain ticket to destruction. Or, perhaps for a time, we can stay sober with a minimum of self-improvement and settle ourselves into a comfortable but often dangerous mediocrity. Or, finally, we can continuously try hard for those sterling qualities that can add up to fineness of spirit and action--true and lasting freedom under God.

Grapevine, November 1960

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11/24/2025

Thought for the day: We have a higher nature and a lower nature....one is spirit and one is flesh.....If we are having problems over coming some issue in our life almost always its grounded in the lower nature. We must be willing to examine which nature has more power in our lives because the one that is fed the most will always dominate us.....

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11/22/2025

Thought for the day: If you think about something long enough you can turn it into anything you want.....For me and people like myself this is not a good thing. When I try to do things in a manner that I know isn't on the level and or manipulate in the least bit, no matter how we try to rationalize it ,it still doesn't make it right. These and other things lends itself to us having a stressful and less than desirable life in any given day...

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11/21/2025

Thought for the day: Love because you can...not because you have too.. Be thankful today for your life and the people in it, even in the trying times. The grass is never greener on the "other side" because we are always on the "other side"...and lastly, I'm not as important as I think I am in mans eye's.....but in Gods eye's, we are his everything....

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11/18/2025

Thought for the day: We aren't meant to do this thing called life alone. I found looking back on my life that being alone just allowed me not to be accountable to anyone. It let me believe I was okay inside and out because I wouldn't allow anyone to challenge me, or my behaviors...We are meant to live and grow together in maturity...The task here is to make sure that who we align ourselves with also wants good and healthy things in life......

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11/18/2025

Daily Reflections

A SAFETY NET

Occasionally. . . We are seized with a rebellion so sickening that we
simply won't pray. When these things happen we should not think too ill of ourselves. We should simply resume prayer as soon as we can, doing what we know to be good for us.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 105

Sometimes I scream, stomp my feet, and turn my back on my Higher Power. Then my disease tells me that I am a failure, and that if I stay angry I'll surely get drunk. In those moments of self-will it's as if I've slipped over a cliff and am hanging by one hand. The above passage is my safety net, in that it urges me to try some new behavior, such as being kind and patient with myself. It assures me that my Higher Power will wait until I am willing once again to risk letting go, to land in the net, and to pray.

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11/12/2025

Thought for the day: I know that waiting can be hard....I also know that if I push the issue I usually self destruct anything good that would have come out of it. If we only waited that extra 5 mins for the miracle. Asking for Gods help and then waiting for it are two very different things, we need to practice both.

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11/12/2025

11/11/2025

Daily Reflections

SELF-ACCEPTANCE

We know that God lovingly watches over us. We know that when we turn to Him, all will be well with us, here and hereafter.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 105

I pray for the willingness to remember that I am a child of God, a divine soul in human form, and that my most basic and urgent life-task is to accept, know, love and nurture myself. As I accept myself, I am accepting God's will. As I know and love myself, I am
knowing and loving God. As I nurture myself I am acting on God's guidance. I pray for the willingness to let go of my arrogant self-criticism, and to praise God by humbly
accepting and caring for myself.

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11/07/2025

Thought for the day: Love, kindness, empathy, generosity and thoughtfulness...??..Commitment, honesty, justice and peacemaker...??...Today I must be in pursuit of these things or run the risk of being just another face in a sea of souls. I want a life worth living because everything else is just shallow. For every good thing God has for us the devil has a counterfeit....Look for the counterfeit, it is surrounded by the temporary fix....the things of God are internal(eternal),the things of the devil are external(momentary)......

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