TOPICS – August 23
1) Daily Reflections
BRINGING THE MESSAGE HOME…
Can we bring the same spirit of love and tolerance into our
sometimes deranged family lives that we bring to our A.A. group?
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS , pp. 111 -112
2) Prayer For The Day:
I pray that I may realize that life without a goal is futile.
I pray that I may find the good life worth striving for.
3) Keep It Simple:
Where there is no vision, a people perish.—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Working our program teaches us to see things more clearly. We learn to look at who we really are. At first, we’re scared to see ourselves. But it turns out okay, even though we’re not perfect. We also begin to see others more clearly. We see good in people we don’t like. And we see faults in people we thought we’re prefect. But we don’t judge people anymore. Nobody is perfect. Just as our program friends accept us as we are, we learn to accept others.
4) What is not love is fear. Anger is one of fear’s most potent faces.
And it does exactly what fear wants it to do. It keeps us from
receiving love at exactly the moment when we need it most.
— Marianne Williamson