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Meditation reading for Friday May 30, 2025
May 30, 2025
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. — Anonymous Surges of anger may come to us unbidden, but we don’t have to let anger lead us around by...
Meditation reading for Friday May 23, 2025
May 23, 2025
THE PARALYSIS OF ANALYSIS — The good news of the Twelve Step program is that we have a Higher Power whose presence serves as a source of guidance and...
Meditation reading for Friday May 16, 2025
May 16, 2025
GROWTH — Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. — Carl Jung We sometimes imagine that a life free of turmoil would bring complete happiness....
Meditation reading for Friday May 9, 2025
May 9, 2025
MAINTAINING OPTIMISM — Hope, ranked alongside faith and love as a great virtue, holds profound significance. For those of us entangled in the grip of...
Meditation reading for Friday May 2, 2025
May 2, 2025
REMAINING TEACHABLE — Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. One thing we all have going for us is the ability to change our mind. Thank...
Meditation reading for Friday April 25, 2025
April 25, 2025
TAKING ACTION — An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. Overplanning, overthinking, and too much talking often hinder the actions that can bring real...
Meditation reading for Friday April 18, 2025
April 18, 2025
NEED A FIX? FIX THE NEED Recovering individuals sometimes say, “Need a fix? Fix the need.” This is powerful advice, especially when paired with a daily...
Meditation reading for Friday April 11, 2025
April 11, 2025
PATIENCE — It’s only natural to want a quick fix or an immediate solution to a difficult situation. As one member jokingly puts it: “Grant me patience,...
Meditation reading for Friday April 4, 2025
April 4, 2025
DESERVING HAPPINESS — Somewhere along the journey of living sober, we should come to realize that we deserve to be happy. If happiness eludes us, the fault...
Meditation reading for Friday March 28, 2025
March 28, 2025
KEEP COMING BACK, IT WORKS IF YOU WORK IT — A popular self-help book notes that there is tremendous power in repetition, like the tap-tap-tap of a hammer...
Meditation reading for Friday March 21, 2025
March 21, 2025
GUIDANCE — AA members have always struggled to explain the “God business.” We’ve never wanted to be seen as religious, yet we’ve consistently believed that...
Meditation reading for Friday March 14, 2025
March 14, 2025
ANGER…A DANGEROUS WEAPON — One reason some of us struggle to overcome anger is that we’ve relied on it too often as an offensive weapon. It can serve as an...
Meditation reading for Friday March 7, 2025
March 7, 2025
PROGRESS, NOT PERFECTION — It is the daily strivings that count, not the momentary heights. Progress, not perfection, is the hallmark of our program, and...
Meditation reading for Friday February 28, 2025
February 28, 2025
LET GO AND LET GOD — The biggest problem in prayer is how to “let go and let God.” Too much of the time we try to run things, to manipulate people, to force...
Meditation reading for Friday February 21, 2025
February 21, 2025
SELF-ACCEPTANCE Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. — Carl Jung We are all a little wacky. When we enter a crowded room and hear someone...
Meditation reading for Friday February 14, 2025
February 14, 2025
“In God’s economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.” — Bill W. We are so...
Meditation reading for Friday February 7, 2025
February 7, 2025
SPIRITUALITY — What I spent, I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me. They say money talks. And so it does. The amount...
Meditation reading for Friday January 31, 2025
January 31, 2025
EMBRACING OPPORTUNITY — Through laziness or inattention, we often miss opportunities to grow. Maybe we don’t play our hunches or listen to our intuition....
Meditation reading for Friday January 24, 2025
January 24, 2025
LIVE AND LET LIVE — For countless reasons, people with drinking problems blunder into conflicts with others. It's not unusual to hear that a person has not...
Meditation reading for Friday January 17, 2025
January 17, 2025
NEVER TOO LATE — Many of us lament the fact that we wasted our youthful years when we should have been earning college degrees or perfecting a skill. Many of...
Meditation reading for Friday January 10, 2025
January 10, 2025
AS WE THINK, SO WE ARE — Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being. We can use our positive thoughts for successful living by keeping our mind...
Meditation reading for Friday January 3, 2025
January 3, 2025
GROWTH — Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness. We thought we were self-sufficient, that we needed no help to run our life, but this got us...
Meditation reading for Friday December 27, 2024
December 27, 2024
HAS IT BEEN A YEAR OF GROWTH? As any year draws to a close, we should reflect on how we have grown in sobriety. We should also identify changes during the...
Meditation reading for Friday December 20, 2024
December 20, 2024
HUMILITY — Humility is often used in the context of being honest enough to admit one's faults, but it also means being teachable. The truly humble person...
Meditation reading for Friday December 13, 2024
December 13, 2024
KEEP THE FOCUS ON PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY — Alcoholics often try to shift responsibility to others. We once thought it was possible to blame others for our...
Meditation reading for Friday December 6, 2024
December 6, 2024
THE LURE OF GREENER PASTURES — One of our old-timers spent a great deal of time trying to find a new job but never succeeded. When he finally retired, on a...
Meditation reading for Friday November 29, 2024
November 29, 2024
GROWTH — Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. Many of us are dissatisfied with our progress. Our mind is clear and we’re in...
Meditation reading for Friday November 22, 2024
November 22, 2024
EXPLAINING ALCOHOLISM — Over the years, there have been many theories about the causes of alcoholism. One of the old theories was that we drink because we...
Meditation reading for Friday November 15, 2024
November 15, 2024
GIFTS FROM OUR HIGHER POWER — We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. Every moment that passes us by unnoticed is a lost gift. The stranger’s...
Meditation reading for Friday November 8, 2024
November 8, 2024
MIRACLES — It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles. We who have entrusted our life to a Higher Power can tell of strange and wonderful...
Meditation reading for Friday November 1, 2024
November 1, 2024
SEARCHING FOR GUIDANCE — I have plumbed the depths of despair and have found them not bottomless — Thomas Hardy All of us at some time have reached a...
Meditation reading for Friday October 25, 2024
October 25, 2024
THE NEW PROBLEMS IN SOBRIETY — Sometimes sobriety turns up problems that were never apparent during one's drinking days. Some people, for example, encounter...
Meditation reading for Friday October 18, 2024
October 18, 2024
TIME DISCOVERS TRUTH — Our program sponsors often tell us that time is on our side. We can remember that we didn’t get into the fix we were in all at once,...
Meditation reading for Friday October 11, 2024
October 11, 2024
DEALING WITH ANGER — "The most heated bit of letter-writing can be a wonderful safety valve providing the wastebasket is somewhere nearby." — AA co-founder,...
Meditation reading for Friday October 4, 2024
October 4, 2024
LIVING OR WAITING? — What is the real secret of living 24 hours at a time? Isn't it really a matter of feeling completely comfortable in the present rather...
Meditation reading for Friday September 27, 2024
September 27, 2024
LISTENING — “When you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is...
Meditation reading for Friday September 20, 2024
September 20, 2024
“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.” —...
Meditation reading for Friday September 13, 2024
September 13, 2024
LEARNING TO CUT MY LOSSES — Business people speak of “cutting their losses” when it becomes clear that a venture is going sour. As recovering alcoholics, we...
Meditation reading for Friday September 6, 2024
September 6, 2024
ACHIEVING SUCCESS — We hear about people who snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Some of us do that even in sobriety, experiencing failure just as...
Meditation reading for Friday August 30, 2024 HAPPINESS — There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness. How happy we are right now may hinge on dinnertime—whether it is just before or just after. It may also depend on whether we are examining ourselves to see if we are happy or not. There’s nothing like a little introspection to convince a person of the futility of life. Just asking the question, “Am I happy?” is enough to put him or her into a blue mood. Moments of happiness, like creative thoughts, pass before us all the time. If we want to enjoy them, it’s up to us to reach out and take them when they appear. The opportunities are boundless, and they all come dressed up like other people. No one has ever been happy for long in isolation. We are not, by nature, solitary creatures. God gave us people to be with. And as an incentive to be kind to one another, God made each of us a source of happiness for others If there’s anybody around, I won’t have to look far for happiness today.
August 30, 2024
HAPPINESS — There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness. How happy we are right now may hinge on dinnertime—whether it is just before or just...
Meditation reading for Friday August 23, 2024
August 23, 2024
MAKING PROGRESS — It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. It’s easy to see why we never graduate from this program. Talking about our...
Meditation reading for Friday August 16, 2024
August 16, 2024
FINDING SERENITY — So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves instead of letting them alter us. Our attempts to control the uncontrollable (the...
Meditation reading for Friday August 9, 2024
August 9, 2024
PEACE IN THE PRESENT — Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to...
Meditation reading for Friday August 2, 2024
August 2, 2024
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self. — Albert Einstein...
Meditation reading for Friday July 26, 2024
July 26, 2024
STAYING RIGHT SIZED — There’s something spiritual about lying under the stars on a clear night. The immensity of the universe is enough to put our life into...
Meditation reading for Friday July 19, 2024
July 19, 2024
FINDING HAPPINESS — We delude ourselves if we believe that our happiness and well-being will come when we reach a certain goal. Whatever happiness and well-...
Meditation reading for Friday July 12, 2024
July 12, 2024
SOLVING PROBLEMS IS THE PROOF — Although we try, it's almost impossible for us to use logic to prove the existence (or nonexistence) of God. Our best proof...
Meditation reading for Friday July 5, 2024
July 5, 2024
CHANGE — In human affairs, vast changes sometimes take place almost spontaneously, bringing on revolutionary upheavals. What brings about such change? These...
Meditation reading for Friday June 28, 2024
June 28, 2024
LET IT HAPPEN — Student pilots learn a simple method for getting an airplane out of a stall. Release the stick forward, and the airplane rights itself....
Meditation reading for Friday June 21, 2024
June 21, 2024
REMEMBER THE GOLDEN KEY — Whenever trouble arises, the first thing to do is to turn it over to our Higher Power. We can take all necessary practical steps to...
 
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