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- Feb 10, 2024
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Daily Readings and Inspirations
Daily Reflections: I DON'T RUN THE SHOW
When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn't. What was our choice to be? ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.53
Today my choice is God. He is everything. For this I am truly grateful. When I think I am running the show I am blocking God from my life. I pray I can remember this when I allow myself to get caught up into self.
The most important thing is that today I am willing to grow along spiritual lines, and that God is everything. When I was trying to quit drinking on my own, it never worked; with God and A.A., it is working. This seems to be a simple thought for a complicated alcoholic.
NA Just For Today: Fun!
"In recovery our ideas of fun change" Basic Text, p. 102
In retrospect, many of us realize that when we used, our ideas of fun were rather bizarre. Some of us would get dressed up and head for the local club. We would dance, drink and do other drugs until the sun rose. On more than one occasion, gun battles broke out. What we then called fun, we now call insanity.
Today, our notion of fun has changed. Fun to us today is a walk along the ocean, watching the dolphins frolic as the sun sets behind them. Fun is going to an NA picnic, or attending the comedy show at an NA convention. Fun is getting dressed up to go to the banquet and not worrying about any gun battles breaking out over who did what to whom.
Through the grace of a Higher Power and the Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous, our ideas of fun have changed radically. Today when we are up to see the sun rise, it's usually because we went to bed early the night before, not because we left a club at six in the morning, eyes bleary from a night of drug use. And if that's all we have received from Narcotics Anonymous, that would be enough.
Just for today: I will have fun in my recovery!
Recovery ACRONYMS:
WISDOM: When In Self, Discover Our Motives *
HOPE: Happy. Our. Program. Exists.
PUSH: Pray Until Something Happens
QTIP: Quit. Taking. It. Personally
NUTS: Not. Using. The. Steps.
TIME: This I Must Experience
THINK: is it...? Thoughtful. Honest. Intelligent.Necessary. Kind.
T R U S T = Try Relying Upon Steps and Traditions.
The wisdom i have is because I have this hope, maybe at times I have not yet got to the hope that I have to then push, push past the moment of acting/qtiping so that I and others won’t go nuts for its about the time that we have to think; as its in that we find trust.
RECOVERY SLOGANS
recovery-slogans blog page
Cultivate an attitude of gratitude
Call your sponsor before, not after, you take the first drink
Don't Use No Matter What
First Things First
God doesn't make junk
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less
Hugs not Drugs
The newcomer is the most important person in any meeting
Willingness is the key
When all else fails, follow directions
Cultivate an attitude of gratitude is at times Call your sponsor before, not after, you take the first drink so that we Don't Use No Matter What seeing that First Things First knowing that God doesn't make junk and in that we are able to see that Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less to be able to Hugs not Drugs and always able to be the Help that is only a phone call away and that The newcomer is the most important person in any meeting as To keep what you have, you have to give it away by seeing that the Willingness is the key and When all else fails, follow directions.
From myself
Finding the grove, finding that I get to do this and that at times I can let life be on my team or on my terms; it's in that moment I will see that I have a part, and if I have a part then I will be able to do what needs to be done to carry the message or be able to act and stop reacting.
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