Category Archives: One Day At A Time

Daily Recovery Reading – May 11,2012

“What is the greatest hindrance to my achieving serenity? Determination – the grim resolve that I can do something about everything.  This whole feeling of tightening up, girding oneself for battle, can defeat my purpose. Over and over, in a

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Daily Recovery Reading – May 11,2012

“What is the greatest hindrance to my achieving serenity? Determination – the grim resolve that I can do something about everything.  This whole feeling of tightening up, girding oneself for battle, can defeat my purpose. Over and over, in a

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Daily Reading – April 23, 2012

Among the many weapons we use to castigate the alcoholic – or other people we disapprove of- is sarcasm.  True, it relives our pent-up feelings, and if our remarks are really pointed, gives us a certain satisfaction. Repugnant as it

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Daily Reading – April 23, 2012

Among the many weapons we use to castigate the alcoholic – or other people we disapprove of- is sarcasm.  True, it relives our pent-up feelings, and if our remarks are really pointed, gives us a certain satisfaction. Repugnant as it

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Daily Recovery Reading – April 13, 2012

No wonder that both AA and Al-Anon stress the importance of living just one day at a time.  How much precious thinking time we waste fretting over past mistakes and missed opportunities!  How often our depressed imaginings betray us into

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Daily Recovery Reading – April 13, 2012

No wonder that both AA and Al-Anon stress the importance of living just one day at a time.  How much precious thinking time we waste fretting over past mistakes and missed opportunities!  How often our depressed imaginings betray us into

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Daily Recovery Reading – April 10, 2012

What am I really searching for in my life?  Interesting activities?  To meet my obligations to my family annd friends?  To make myself into the kind of person I will enjoy living with? I may not realize all of these

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Daily Recovery Reading – April 10, 2012

What am I really searching for in my life?  Interesting activities?  To meet my obligations to my family annd friends?  To make myself into the kind of person I will enjoy living with? I may not realize all of these

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Daily Recovery Reading – April 9, 2012

Sometimes we find ourselves in a situation so difficult that it seems like a long drawn-out crisis;  we can not solve it; there is no way to escape.  Such a problem will occupy our thoughts continually – round and round

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Daily Recovery Reading – April 9, 2012

Sometimes we find ourselves in a situation so difficult that it seems like a long drawn-out crisis;  we can not solve it; there is no way to escape.  Such a problem will occupy our thoughts continually – round and round

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Daily Recovery Reading – April 2, 2012

The Al-Anon program really works because it helps us to get away from ourselves.  When we think constantly about our grievances and the “faults” of the alcoholic, our minds are too confused to accept new ideas. I will drop this

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Daily Recovery Reading – April 2, 2012

The Al-Anon program really works because it helps us to get away from ourselves.  When we think constantly about our grievances and the “faults” of the alcoholic, our minds are too confused to accept new ideas. I will drop this

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Daily Recovery Reading – March 31, 2012

Oddly enough, many of the things we learn in Al-Anon add up to this:  ”Be good to yourself.”  That’s the counsel to be drawn from Al-Anon’s reminder to live only one day at a time.  It teaches us to toss

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Daily Recovery Reading – March 31, 2012

Oddly enough, many of the things we learn in Al-Anon add up to this:  ”Be good to yourself.”  That’s the counsel to be drawn from Al-Anon’s reminder to live only one day at a time.  It teaches us to toss

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Daily Recovery Reading – March 27, 2012

At times I go to Al-Anon meetings in a captious, critical mood that I am not even aware of.  By an odd coincidence,, everybody happens to irritate me.  This one talks too much, that one has’t enough tolerance for others,

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Daily Recovery Reading – March 27, 2012

At times I go to Al-Anon meetings in a captious, critical mood that I am not even aware of.  By an odd coincidence,, everybody happens to irritate me.  This one talks too much, that one has’t enough tolerance for others,

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Daily Recovery Reading – March 26, 2012

Why is it so hard to admit we are powerless over alcohol, as the First Step suggests we do?  All of us have heard and shared in discussions, at Al-Anon meetings as to whether this should be interpreted as “alcohol”

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Daily Recovery Reading – March 26, 2012

Why is it so hard to admit we are powerless over alcohol, as the First Step suggests we do?  All of us have heard and shared in discussions, at Al-Anon meetings as to whether this should be interpreted as “alcohol”

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Daily Recovery Reading – March 3, 2012

During the dreadful drinking days, the anxiety over what was happening in our family was certainly the most important thing in the world to us.  How could it be otherwise?  We were living with it, saddled with it.  We knew

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Daily Recovery Reading – March 3, 2012

During the dreadful drinking days, the anxiety over what was happening in our family was certainly the most important thing in the world to us.  How could it be otherwise?  We were living with it, saddled with it.  We knew

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