Topics 9/22/24 ❤️🩹
1. Like a gaunt prospector, belt drawn in over the last ounce of food, our pick struck gold. Joy at our release from a lifetime of frustration knew no bounds. Father feels he has struck something better than gold. For a time he may try to hug the new treasure to himself. He may not see at once that he has barely scratched a limitless lode which will pay dividends only if he mine it for the rest of his life and insists on giving away the entire product.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pp. 128-29
2. One Day at a Time
This slogan means we are to take with us only the joys and problems of the present day.
During our illness, we lived everywhere but in the here and now. We looked to the future or punished ourselves with our past. One Day at a Time teaches us to go easy. It teaches us to focus on what really means anything to us: the here and now. ~Keep It Simple
3. The slogans we are learning are like combinations to unlock something of value and make it accessible to our mind. Even if we don’t like the slogans hanging on the walls and repeated at meetings, we at least consider the possibility of opening our mind to it’s intent. ~ Hour To Hour
What’s your favorite slogan and why?
4. Today I no longer keep myself in a fog to protect myself from my own painful and anxious feelings. Since I have been willing to feel my buried feelings in recovery, the fog has cleared. It was hard to go through the feelings but worth it to have myself back on a day-to-day basis. ~Forgiving And Moving On