TOPICS 12/17/2025
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) “….work with other alcoholics…It works when other activities fail.”
-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 89
KEEP IT SIMPLE
2) “The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.” Saadi
When we were drinking and drugging, we didn’t have to deal much with feelings. We turned them off. Then, when we let go of the alcohol and other drugs, we started to come back to life. Now we have feelings again! But, even now, in recovery, we’re scared of too much happiness. It’s true-we don’t want sadnesss and pain at all. Yet, feelings-the good and the bad-keep in coming. And we have to handle them. We are learning to handle our feelings. We’re getting strong enough to deal with them. With the help of our friends in the program, and our Higher Power, we’re ready for life.
POCKET SPONSOR
3) “The people you most need to give love to will seem like the ones who deserve it the least. It begins with me.”
4) “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
Melody Beattie