Category Archives: One Day At A Time
Daily Reading – May 8, 2013 – The gift of Freedom…
Among the many gifts we are offered in Al-Anon is freedom. When we are new in Al-Anon, we are prisoners of our own confusion and despair. Working with the program offers us release as we learn to understand the true
Daily Reading – May 8, 2013 – The gift of Freedom…
Among the many gifts we are offered in Al-Anon is freedom. When we are new in Al-Anon, we are prisoners of our own confusion and despair. Working with the program offers us release as we learn to understand the true
Daily Reading – May 6, 2013 – As we improve…
While we do not come to Al-Anon for the purpose of getting the alcoholic to stop drinking, it is true that membership in an Al-Anon group has been an important factor in many an alcoholic’s recovery. Nevertheless, our first concern
Daily Reading – May 6, 2013 – As we improve…
While we do not come to Al-Anon for the purpose of getting the alcoholic to stop drinking, it is true that membership in an Al-Anon group has been an important factor in many an alcoholic’s recovery. Nevertheless, our first concern
Daily Reading – April 23, 2013
Among the many weapons we use to castigate…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 is in itself, sarcasm becomes even
Daily Reading – April 23, 2013
Among the many weapons we use to castigate…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 is in itself, sarcasm becomes even
Daily Reading – April 17, 2013 – Not my will…
It has often been suggested that we adopt a favorite maxim or quotation to repeat when we want to tide ourselves over a difficult time. Many of use the Serenity Prayer in this way. Others, trapped in a baffling dilemma
Daily Reading – April 17, 2013 – Not my will…
It has often been suggested that we adopt a favorite maxim or quotation to repeat when we want to tide ourselves over a difficult time. Many of use the Serenity Prayer in this way. Others, trapped in a baffling dilemma
Daily Reading – April 11, 2013 – WHY????
Newcomers to Al-Anon often ask what makes the alcoholic drink. They seem more eager to know why than to learn why they allow another’s compulsive drinking to affect them so destructively. The causes of the drinker’s desperate need for escape through alcohol
Daily Reading – April 11, 2013 – WHY????
Newcomers to Al-Anon often ask what makes the alcoholic drink. They seem more eager to know why than to learn why they allow another’s compulsive drinking to affect them so destructively. The causes of the drinker’s desperate need for escape through alcohol
Daily Reading – April 9, 2013 – There is some good in even the darkest troubles
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
Daily Reading – April 9, 2013 – There is some good in even the darkest troubles
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
Daily Reading – April 8, 2013 – Your will, not mine…Let Go and Let God
Would I stand on the seashore and, like King Canute of the ancient legend, try to command the tides It is just as fruitless to try to control the alcoholic. Yet this is what I would be doing in attempting
Daily Reading – April 8, 2013 – Your will, not mine…Let Go and Let God
Would I stand on the seashore and, like King Canute of the ancient legend, try to command the tides It is just as fruitless to try to control the alcoholic. Yet this is what I would be doing in attempting
Daily Reading – March 8, 2013 – Taking Offense
One of my favourite Al-Anon pamphlets is A Guide for the Family of the Alcoholic. It discusses the weapons the alcoholic might use to relieve his or her anxiety or to create additional reasons to drink. These include the ability to
Daily Reading – March 8, 2013 – Taking Offense
One of my favourite Al-Anon pamphlets is A Guide for the Family of the Alcoholic. It discusses the weapons the alcoholic might use to relieve his or her anxiety or to create additional reasons to drink. These include the ability to
Daily Reading – April 5, 2013 –
A member once said: “The Twelve Steps were designed for desperate people like us – as a shortcut to God. When we accept them and use them, we find they open the way to use our God-given abilities which we
Daily Reading – April 5, 2013 –
A member once said: “The Twelve Steps were designed for desperate people like us – as a shortcut to God. When we accept them and use them, we find they open the way to use our God-given abilities which we
Daily Reading – April 3, 2013 – Miracles
It really isn’t so hard to believe in miracles in Al-Anon. We see such “miraculous” changes in people who came as newcomers filled with self-pity and resentment and beset with fears. There may not even have been any improvement in
Daily Reading – April 3, 2013 – Miracles
It really isn’t so hard to believe in miracles in Al-Anon. We see such “miraculous” changes in people who came as newcomers filled with self-pity and resentment and beset with fears. There may not even have been any improvement in
