Topics 5/7/25 ❤️🩹
1) RESPECT FOR OTHERS -Daily Reflection
Such parts of our story we tell to someone who will understand, yet be unaffected. The rule is we must be hard on ourselves, but always considerate of others.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 74
2) Grapevine Daily Quote
“‘How will I know if I’ve really hit my bottom?’ I asked at my home group. When you stop digging,’ they told me.”
3) Healing The Past – Walk In Dry Places
In our fellowship, we can find endless examples of people who used the Twelve Steps to overcome all kinds of emotional and physical disabilities. Just when we start thinking something in our past is a permanent handicap, we meet other people who survived the same bitter experiences and are living life to the fullest. They’ve cleared away the wreckage of their past in order to build wisely for the future.
I’ll remember today that I am not bound or limited by anything that was ever done or said to me. I face the day with self-confidence and a sense of expectancy, knowing that I am really a fortunate person with many reasons to be grateful.
4) Keep It Simple
So live that you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
–Will Rogers
Secrets help keep us sick. In our drinking and using days, we did things we weren’t proud of. We lived in a secret world we were ashamed of. This part of the power of addiction. Our behavior and our secrets kept us trapped. Recovery offers us a way out of this secret world. In our groups, we share our secrets, and they lose their power over us. There may be things we’re too ashamed to talk about in our groups. When we share these things in our Fifth Step, they lose their power over us.
We have a new life that we’re not ashamed to talk about. When shame leaves, pride enters our hearts. We know