This is my Tradition 5/7, step 12 

Read It to me/podcast 

• simple literature Organized by Pancake Marathon: Daily Readings and Inspirations

• pancake marathon: journey of recovery

Pancake Marathon: 

• Each moment when I grow, I can see how far I've come and willing to keep going; cuz I know at first I have done a 360° too many times:  to say simply a sorry or should that of to stay in my stinking thinking essentially.  yet now I know the power of doing a 180° and then at times only to reflect to see where I've gone and to see where I'm going will I do a 360° turn essentially.

acronyms and SLOGANS: Organized by Pancake Marathon

• Cultivate an attitude of gratitude is getting to that point of seeing that you maybe feel that you failed and then seeing that you can get past this fear of what was; to stop Beating yourself up to seeing that the fear that you have now is by the love and the hope that you have now; seeing that Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less, as simply How Important Is It at that moment when Feelings are not facts being able to see: Is your program powered by Will Power or Higher Power?

Acronyms 

1. FAIL: First attempt in learning

2. FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real

3. FEAR: Face Everything And Rise

4. LOVE: Let Others Voluntarily Evolve

5. HOPE: Happy Our Program Exists

Slogans

1. Cultivate an attitude of gratitude

2. Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less

3. How Important Is It

4.  Feelings are not facts

5. Is your program powered by Will Power or Higher Power?

• Slogans are wisdom written in shorthand and Acronyms are just the sum/the Virtues, of all that wisdom: WISDOM: When In Self, Discover Our Motives 

meeting topic

• are you your: Addiction/Disease(a killer) or observer(of said thought: as to hold then action?)?

word of the month

• _Honesty/Integrity/Concern/readiness

• step 5: Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Step 12/to give where credit is due I got all of these readings from "recovery HQ" _ but I put them in a Living life on life's terms and to Better care of the message  and you can actually find all of them in Daily Readings and Inspirations

Daily Reflections: LIGHTING THE DARK PAST

(Forgiveness_step 9/Connection_ step 11)

• Cling to the thought that, in God's hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have - the key to life and happiness for others. With it you can avert death and misery for them. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p 124 

• No longer is my past an autobiography; it is a reference book to be taken down, opened and shared.  Today as I report for duty, the most wonderful picture comes through. For, though this day be dark - as some days must be - the stars will shine even brighter later. My witness that they do shine will be called  for in the very near future. All my past will this day be a part of me, because it is the key, not the lock. 

Keep It Simple 

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• Most of us want to be happy. We just don't know how. We aren't sure what happiness is. We've learned  the hard way that some things we wanted didn't make us happy. We're learning that happiness comes  when we live the way our Higher Power wants us to live. That's when we’re honest. When we do our best  work. When we are a true friend. We make happiness; we don't find it. Sometimes we don't even know  we're happy. We're too busy with our work, our recovery program, our friends and family. We need to  slow down and know that when we do what we need to, happiness comes. 

• Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me know that I'm most happy when I listen to You and do Your  will. You know better than I do what makes me happy.

• Action for the Day: What parts of my program am I most happy about? Today I'll think of these and  enjoy myself. 

NA Just For Today: "Just Maybe...." 

Tolerance/respect_step 11

• "There is one thing more than anything else that will defeat us in our recovery; this is an attitude of indifference or intolerance toward spiritual principles." Basic Text, p. 18 

• When we first came to NA, many of us had great difficulty accepting the spiritual principles underlying  this program-and for good reason. No matter how we'd tried to control our addiction, we'd found  ourselves powerless. We grew angry and frustrated with anyone who suggested there was hope for us, because we knew better. Spiritual ideas may have had some bearing on other peoples' lives, but not on  ours. 

• Despite our indifference or intolerance toward spiritual principles, we were drawn to Narcotics  Anonymous. There, we met other addicts. They'd been where we'd been, powerless and hopeless, yet  they'd found a way not only to stop using but to live and enjoy life clean. They spoke of the spiritual  principles that had pointed the way for them to this new life of recovery. For them, these principles were  not just theories but a part of their practical experience. Yes, we had good reason to be skeptical, but these  spiritual principles spoken of by other NA members really seemed to work. 

• Once we admitted this, we didn't necessarily accept every single spiritual idea we heard. But we did start  to think that, if these principles had worked for others, just maybe they'd work for us, too. For a  beginning, that willingness was enough. 

• Just for today: Just maybe the spiritual principles I hear spoken of in NA might work for me. I am willing,  at least, to open my mind to the possibility. 

Pocket Sponsor - Book - Quote 

• They say that young people don't get sober, they get caught. Getting caught is a great way to find recovery. We don't care how you get here, whether it is your parents that force you, a school counselor,  the courts, or a guilty conscious--you're here. So decide not to get recaught, but to recover instead. 

• If I'm young, I am respectful of the old farts. If I'm an old fart I don't recite platitudes to the young. "Walk Softly and Carry a Big Book" - Book 

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https://www.spadna.org/ Empathy in Hard Times Page 127

"We find people who have been through what we're going through, and got through it clean. We need other people to walk us through hard times, and we need to reach out and help others as we heal."

Living Clean, Chapter 1, "Growing Pains"

For many of us, when we were new to NA, getting clean--and staying clean--was the hardest thing we'd ever been through. Our life seemed impossibly dark, and it took every bit of effort not to go back to our old lives. But we didn't pick up, no matter what. We survived that time, in large part, because of our connection to other recovering addicts. A member shared: "In my first meeting someone told me, 'I understand you, and you don't have to go through this alone.' For years, people had said so many things to me, trying to help, but until NA, no one said they'd had the same experience--and that they'd survived it."

However, staying clean doesn't mean the difficult times are over. Inevitably, "no matter what" situations await all of us. Sometimes these challenges can add to our lives in significant ways: We get off the street and live on our own for the first time or we buy property or start a family or a business. For many of us, we experience catastrophic events that easily eclipse the suffering of early recovery. We have to care for an aging parent or we lose a child to the disease of addiction. There's economic hardship, divorce or widowhood, infertility, cancer or chronic pain; the list is endless.

And so is the depth of the empathy and experience of our NA Fellowship. None of us has to go through any hardship alone. We get through these times clean, just as we did when we were new--with willingness to accept help from those who understand us and who have endured similar situations.

The member continued: "Without each other, we are stumbling around in the dark. I let people in, not only because I needed help, but because allowing others who love us to support us in our time of need also shows compassion and generosity." Speaking about the loss of his spouse to suicide, he added, "Ultimately, my own struggle became more bearable because I helped someone going through the same thing. That mutual aid is empathy in action."

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I am committed to being there for others who have been down similar roads. We can walk together and welcome others along the way.