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10/28/2025

Pause

I've learned the importance of pausing. I need to pause - especially when I'm unsure about something. I've learned that I'm an extrovert, and my tendency is to just talk, talk, talk. When I'm uncomfortable, I talk.

Back when I was drinking, alcohol filled that gap for me. Now I know to pause and be quiet and just listen. It's so impactful.

I'm at the point in my current job where I'll have all these people - the pharmacist, the doctor, and the research team - coming at me at once. There are days when I'm literally so quiet, because there's not enough time to react to what they're saying to me. They ask me, "Did you hear that?" I'm like, "Oh, yes I heard it. I'm just listening to you, and I'll revisit this in an hour after I've had a chance to look into it."

For me, that is a miracle. Really. Because when you're in the military, everything is quick, snap - right then and there. We have so much coming at us all the time.

For me, meditation has become crucial. I just need to pause and really listen to the universe.

Today I will pause instead of reacting right away.

~Anonymous, U.S. Air Force, 1997–2000

10/27/2025

Accepting our Higher Power's love

Our Higher Power's love is so encompassing and powerful that we cannot understand it. Doubtless, many have turned away from our fellowship because they could not accept such love. Why would I deserve such love? Where would it come from?

Maybe these words were once ours, but as we apply our newfound principles we come to understand love, not in our intellect, but in our being. It is through the love and grace of our Higher Power that we have gained so much.

Am I accepting that love?

Higher Power, may I come to know the influence of your love, helping me day by day, hour by hour.

Today I will see my Higher Power's love in...

10/24/2025

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
~Mahatma Gandhi

There's a lot wrong in the world - just check the headlines. Our old way of dealing with these troubles was to rant about them, or ignore them, or numb our minds with substances.

Now we have a new way to change the world. We're changing ourselves. One day at a time, we're acting like the caring, responsible people we want to be. We use the ideas of the program in our lives.

We're kinder. We're more honest. We stand up for ourselves and for others who need our help. What if the whole world started working the Steps? What a wonderful world this would be!

Prayer for the Day
Higher Power, please work through me today. Help me make the world a little better place.

Action for the Day
I'll list one thing that bothers me about the world today. How can using the ideas of the program help solve that problem? Remember, the program tells us to look at our own behavior.

10/23/2025

The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.
~Muriel Ruheyser

There was once a storyteller who told many people of her life. They listened and heard their own stories in hers. Hearing her story, they didn't feel so lonely anymore. Hearing about someone else who had lost things and people she loved, who had felt lonely, scared, and unsure of herself, let them feel less crazy when similar things happened to them.

Because of the healing they felt through hearing someone else's story, some of the listeners decided to become storytellers themselves. As they recounted their stories, they found that letting out secrets that had bothered them for years freed them to feel good about who they were and who they had always wanted to be.

10/20/2025

People have always wanted to talk to me about their problems. I guess I'm a good listener. Maybe I have something to contribute after all.
~JoAnn Reed

No one is without value in this life. Maybe we haven't discovered our unique purpose or special gifts, but we each have a place in the universe, or we wouldn't be here. Each of us can offer friends a valuable gift every day - we can listen. Messages from our Higher Power often come through the words of others. We perform a wonderful service for our companions by listening and by sharing our own experience and advice.

Rapt attention - giving it and receiving it - is perhaps the most valuable contribution any of us can make. Let's never underestimate the sacredness of listening.

I will keep my own mind quiet if a friend wants to share her concerns today. That way, my heart may be able to offer her the wisdom she needs.

10/19/2025

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order.
~Eudora Welty

We will experience no coincidence today. All situations that transpire in the next twenty-four hours have their purpose. No single event, not the tired, hurried smile from a boss, the phone call from a frantic friend, or the cold response from a co-worker is without impact on our current perception of life. However, we shouldn't try to evaluate the full significance of any passing event without God's help. Letting our Higher Power offer us clarity regarding the circumstances in our life will ensure a healthy perspective.

We've all experienced trauma because we exaggerated a problem rather than calmly let our inner wisdom guide us. We're only an impulsive thought away from a flurry of problems. Likewise, we're only an instant away from peace and enlightenment. The quiet mind will be ever present if that's our wish.

I'll truly understand the events of today if I quietly let God reveal their significance.

10/16/2025

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
~Charles A. Beard

We human beings seem to prefer to be in the light. Most of us rely on the daylight to move around safely and do our work. In the light we feel like we have more control. At night, when the world is dark, we feel less in control. We do two things: we turn on the lights so we can continue our daytime activity, or we go to sleep.

But darkness has gifts for us - different gifts than we get from light. Darkness changes how we see things. In the dark we see less, but we pay better attention. As we let go of our fears and let our eyes adjust to the dark, we find that we can see more than we first thought. We can see enough to take the next step. There are some things, like the stars, that we can see better in the dark.

Prayer for the Day

Higher Power, let me learn the lessons of loving the dark. Let me learn to really see the gifts that surround and support me, and the beautiful possibilities that life holds for me.

Today's Action

Tonight as I get ready for bed, I will get a different view of my surroundings. I will sit up in the dark for a few minutes. I will feel the floor or bed supporting me, and I will let my eyes adjust to the dark.

10/13/2025

We are no longer spiritually bankrupt.

We believed happiness was only a dim possibility when we finally sought the help of the program. We had given up on God's fulfilling our wishes long ago. Sons and daughters were out of control. Spouses and partners were drinking and distant. Bosses were demanding and neighbors were nosy. Very few people lived up to our expectations!

A Twelve Step program was a last resort for many of us, and we weren't very hopeful. Prayers had failed us before, so why would a Higher Power be any more helpful? One of the first things we heard is that our Higher Power, or God as we understand God, answers our prayers but not necessarily on our timetable. We also learned that God gives us what we need, not what we want.

The miracle is that now we feel better than we've felt for years. For some of us, many things haven't changed: Drinkers are still drinking. Jobs are still stressful and our kids still worry us. Still, we feel hopeful, because we believe that God is taking care of us according to the plan for each of our lives. Praying for knowledge of God's will for us is a prayer that always gets answered.

I won't beseech God to do anything my way today. I'll pray to know God's way instead. My intuition can steer me.

10/09/2025

If You Are New to This Thing Called Recovery

One day you will look in the mirror and cry out to yourself, I can't do this anymore. And you will put down your drink, your drug, your food, your addictive relationship, your compulsive behavior. You will experiment with letting go of controlling that thing that you have been hanging on to so tightly for so long. That will be the beginning.

Some other day (not necessarily the next day) you will realize that, against all odds, you have made it through another day without resorting to a maladaptive behavior that serves no helpful purpose. You will be proud that you got through the day, because it wasn't an easy day, and you will think, Maybe there is something to this recovery thing. Maybe I can do this. And as the days go on, even if they don't stack one on top of the other, you will, indeed, do this thing called recovery.

Recovery isn't always easy, but our lives become easier to live in recovery.

10/06/2025

Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth.
~Francoise Giraud

Sometimes we think we need to try and be something we're not. Maybe we feel pressure from friends to behave or dress like someone else. All we need to do is remember when we were younger and dressed in our parents' clothes and shoes. We pretended to be grown-ups, and it was fun for a while.

Then the huge shoes on our feet grew clumsy and uncomfortable and the mountain of rolled-up sleeves kept falling down and getting in the way. Soon we grew tired of the game and stopped pretending.

Today when we start feeling the pressure to be someone else, let's remember how hard it is to play a role that doesn't fit us.

What can I do today that is most like me?

10/05/2025

AA Thought for the Day
What a load wasting money puts on your shoulders! They say that members of AA have paid the highest initiation fee of any club members in the world, because we've wasted so much money on liquor. We'll never be able to figure out how much it was. We not only wasted our own money, but also the money we should have spent on our families. When you come into AA, that terrible load of wasted money falls off your shoulders. We alcoholics were getting round-shouldered from carrying all those loads that drinking put on our shoulders. But when we come into AA, we get a wonderful feeling of release and freedom. Can I throw back my shoulders and look the whole world in the face again?

Meditation for the Day
I believe that the future is in the hands of God. He knows better than I what the future holds for me. I am not at the mercy of fate or buffeted about by life. I am being led in a very definite way, as I try to rebuild my life. I am the builder, but God is the architect. It is mine to build as best I can, under His guidance.

Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may depend on God, since He has planned my life. I pray that I may live my life as I believe God wants me to live it.

10/01/2025

Optimism

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears that this is true.
~James Branch Cabell

Optimists say that there are far more successes than failures in recovery. Pessimists say the opposite. The program says that anyone in recovery is a success. The program never fails, but individuals do because they give up too easily and too quickly.

When we decide to work closely with others, we have already declared that we will be optimistic about succeeding. During our excessive years, we suffered all the pessimism we ever again want to suffer. When we gather at a meeting, we are former pessimists who join in being optimists about winning. The irony is that this makes us winners.

Two people were served hamburgers for lunch.
The pessimist muttered, "What a small dab of meat," while the optimist exclaimed, "What a big bun they serve here."

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