TOPICS 8/1/25
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1)The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it.
-ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS , p. 83
DAYS OF HEALING DAYS OF JOYl
2) Progress always involves risk. You can’t steal second with your foot on first
—Mary R.
Recovery is risk — because recovery is progress. It is doing something different, something new. it is going into areas where we have not been before.
Much of the risk, however, is more in our heads than in fact.
Sure, it is a risk to take off for second. But we’ll never get home if we don’t leave first base.
FORGIVING AND MOVING ON
3) Today I am not a different person with each individual person I interact.
In my codependency I responded so much to others’ perceptions.
I was experiencing a loss of self and an intrusion of a false self that left me feeling overly vulnerable and at other people’s mercy. As I regained my center, I have a more consistent inner self, and self-respect remains intact.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are are your ways my ways.
A DAY AT A TIME
4)Self-pity is one of the most miserable and consuming defects I know. Because of its interminable demands for attention and sympathy. my self-pity cuts off my communication with others, especially communication with my Higher Power. When I look at it that way, I realize that self-pity limits my spiritual progress. It’s also a very real form of martyrdom, which is a luxury I simply can’t afford. The remedy, I’ve been taught, is to have a hard look at myself and a still harder one at The Program’s Twelve Steps to recovery. Do I ask my Higher Power to relieve me of the bondage of self-pity?