January 4
AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote
Live and let live is the rule. If you both show a willingness to remedy your own defects, there will be little need to criticize each other. – Pg. 118 – To Wives
Hour To Hour – Book – Quote
The reality of our illness is simple; we have it! Once we see that we have the disease of chemical dependency, then we can admit that we are addicted to whatever, and then we can accept the help we are offered.
I accept my humanness and accept my non-perfection in order to accept the help of those in recovery.
Today
I will live in the present grateful to be alive and in this radiant world for one more day. Living in the present brings its own perspective. What is not worth getting preoccupied about falls away while what is truly meaningful and important rises up and into focus. I am here to appreciate and live life, to grow, to share my heart and soul with those around me. If I miss today, I will not get it back. If I allow it to work its beauty inside of me, it will fertilize tomorrow’s garden. Today is what I know I have. All of life is here, woven into the atoms of the world that surrounds me. If I am with this day, I am with all of life.
I am part of an alive universe.
– Tian Dayton PhD
Pocket Sponsor – Book – Quote
Wet the bed and blame the blanket-that is the life we led. With the Twelve Steps, we learn that problems are basically of our own making.
At the end of BLAME is ME.
“Walk Softly and Carry a Big Book” – Book
UFO’s: Unidentified Fear Objects.
Time for Joy – Book – Quote
This is your TIME for JOY! Know that it is here and now.
Alkiespeak – Book – Quote
We have these two forces; this insatiable thirst, compulsion, hunger, yearning, call it what you will. We don’t know what we’re looking for but we’re searching. And the other force; the escape. We’re running, not knowing what from. – Eddie E.