the Sober Blizzard Group

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...

Meditation reading for Friday June 14, 2024

June 14, 2024

Who can control his fate? — William Shakespeare We often think we are in control when we’re not. For instance, the place we live, our friends, our co-...

Meditation reading for Friday June 7, 2024

June 7, 2024

Love your enemies in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards. — R. A. Dickson There are, of course, practical reasons for treating everyone with...

Meditation reading for Friday May 31, 2024

May 31, 2024

ACCEPTANCE — Anything in life that we don’t accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it. For many of us, life has become far more...

Meditation reading for Friday May 24, 2024

May 24, 2024

Meditation reading for Friday May 24, 2024 We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. — Sir Winston Churchill Perhaps it goes...

Meditation reading for Friday May 17, 2024

May 17, 2024

PRAYER — “He who prays best does not know that he is praying.” — St. Anthony of Padua Prayer at its best is an attitude, an awareness of God’s presence. It’s...

Meditation reading for Friday May 10, 2024

May 10, 2024

MAINTAINING OPTIMISM — As a great virtue, hope is ranked with faith and love. But those of us caught in the thicket of alcoholism and other addictions had...

Meditation reading for Friday May 3, 2024

May 3, 2024

PLANNING FOR OTHERS — Letting Go. There are times when we think we see perfectly what others ought to be doing. It pains and disturbs us when loved ones —...

Meditation reading for Friday April 26, 2024

April 26, 2024

HAPPY PEOPLE ARE LIKABLE — Who are the people we really like, and like to be with? Most of the time, they are happy people, people who like themselves and...

Meditation reading for Friday April 19, 2024

April 19, 2024

WHO PUSHES MY BUTTONS? — AA old-timers would be mystified today to hear program members talk about people “pushing their buttons.” This expression wasn't...

Meditation reading for Friday April 12, 2024

April 12, 2024

LONG TERM RECOVERY — If you’re going to take out a long-term car loan, don’t buy a short-term car. — Ken Blanchard We’re in recovery for the long haul. We...

Meditation reading for Friday April 5, 2024

April 5, 2024

SOUL FOOD — I came to this program to save my ass and found out it was attached to my soul. — Anonymous God gets our attention in a lot of different ways....

Meditation reading for Friday March 29, 2024

March 29, 2024

PRAYER — Prayer can change us dramatically. It can open our eyes to the intricate beauty in things and people in our life. Prayer can help us see the people...

Meditation reading for Friday March 22, 2024

March 22, 2024

LET GO AND LET GOD — Though it came from outside AA, the idea of "letting go and letting God" has taken root in the fellowship. The trouble comes when we try...

Meditation reading for Friday March 15, 2024

March 15, 2024

SHOULD EVERYBODY LIKE ME? In AA discussions, the term "people pleasers" doesn't fare very well. When people say they are people-pleasers, they're...

Meditation reading for Friday March 8, 2024

March 8, 2024

AVOID PROJECTING — It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. — Sir Winston Churchill How many...

Meditation reading for Friday March 1, 2024

March 1, 2024

DON’T FEED BAD HABITS — We quickly learn that it's wrong to do anything that "feeds" a drinking habit. A recovering person would be foolish, for example, to...

Meditation reading for Friday February 23, 2023

February 23, 2024

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. — Carl Jung We are all a little unbalanced at times. When we enter a crowded room and hear someone giggling,...

Meditation reading for Friday February 16, 2023

February 16, 2024

RELEASING THE PAST, LIVING IN THE PRESENT Some of us waste time brooding over past failures and lost opportunities. Since the past is beyond our reach, we...

Meditation reading for Friday February 9, 2023

February 9, 2024

EMBRACING CHANGE — Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. Everything is in a constant state of change. It’s easy to see this in the living things...

Meditation reading for Friday February 2, 2023

February 2, 2024

FACING CHANGE WITH AN OPEN MIND — While open-mindedness is supposedly virtuous, many of us have difficulty with it. In our drinking, we continued to suffer...

Meditation reading for Friday January 26, 2023

January 26, 2024

KEEP IT POSITIVE — If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. — Isaac B. Singer We all know men and women who...

Meditation reading for Friday January 19, 2023

January 19, 2024

FORGIVENESS, THE KEY TO FREEDOM — Resentments keep us in the past, a past that can never be relived. Resentments keep a stranglehold on our mind. They keep...

Meditation reading for Friday January 12, 2023

January 12, 2024

NEVER TOO LATE — Many of us lament the fact that we wasted youthful years when we should have been earning college degrees or perfecting a skill. Many of us...

Meditation reading for Friday January 5, 2023

January 5, 2024

SUCCESSFUL LIVING — Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being. As we think, so we are. And we can use our positive thoughts for successful...

Meditation reading for Friday December 29, 2023

December 29, 2023

LIMITING GOSSIP — "When you've told me their names, do not tell me their faults," a person said at an AA meeting. She was explaining how careful we must be...

Meditation reading for Friday December 22, 2023

December 21, 2023

HUMILITY — 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...

Meditation reading for Friday December 15, 2023

December 15, 2023

PRACTICE BEING EXCITED — The happiness, love, and serenity we long for can become a reality when we’re willing to Act as If. This may sound like magic, but...

Meditation reading for Friday December 8, 2023

December 8, 2023

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 1, 2023

December 1, 2023

UNDERSTANDING LIFE — Why do bad things happen? No one has been able to explain why pain and misfortune must be part of the human condition. Bad things can...

Meditation reading for Friday November 24, 2023

November 24, 2023

Hesitation is the best cure for anger…the first blows of anger are heavy, but as time passes, emotions will soften. Everybody knows that expressing anger...

Meditation reading for Friday November 17, 2023

November 17, 2023

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. — English proverb Every moment that passes us by unnoticed is a lost gift: the stranger’s smile to...

Meditation reading for Friday November 10, 2023

November 10, 2023

PROVING GOD’S EXISTENCE — It surprised some of us to learn that the AA big book has as chapter about agnosticism. The agnostic is one who believes the...

Meditation reading for Friday November 3, 2023

November 3, 2023

MEDITATION is the attempt to provide the soul with a proper environment in which to grow. We all need a quiet time of day. Our life may be hectic, the...

Meditation reading for Friday October 27, 2023

October 27, 2023

DIMINISHING RETURNS ARE STILL BENEFICIAL — There’s a “pink cloud” effect that some of us had when we first found sobriety. Some call it the honeymoon stage....

Meditation reading for Friday October 20, 2023

October 20, 2023

Love is something if you give it away, you end up having more. — Malvina Reynolds We’ve been told since early in recovery that our program gains strength...

Meditation reading for Friday October 13, 2023

October 13, 2023

KEEPING ANGER AT SAFE LIMITS — "The most heated bit of letter-writing can be a wonderful safety valve," AA co-founder, Bill W. said, "providing the...

Meditation reading for Friday October 6, 2023

October 6, 2023

DESERVING SUCCESS — It's said that alcoholics sometimes snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Some of us, deep down inside, don't really think we deserve...

Meditation reading for Friday September 29, 2023

September 29, 2023

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 22, 2023

September 22, 2023

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 15, 2023

September 15, 2023

HUMOR — There's a lot of humor among recovery groups, which probably came out of the bizarre drinking stories told by speakers. It's also a reflection of our...

Meditation reading for Friday September 8, 2023

September 8, 2023

RESTRAINT OF PEN AND TONGUE — Politeness is the art of choosing among one’s real thoughts. — Abel Stevens We’re flooded with thoughts nearly every minute....

Meditation reading for Friday September 1, 2023

September 1, 2023

MOMENTS OF HAPPINESS — There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness. — Spanish proverb How happy we are right now may hinge on any single event...

Meditation reading for Friday August 25, 2023

August 25, 2023

Acceptance — So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us. — Mother Maribel Our attempts to control the...

Meditation reading for Friday August 18, 2023

August 18, 2023

INVENTORY IS NOW — In the early days of AA, the dramatic accounts of drinking escapades seemed to show honesty. Taking personal inventory often included...

Meditation reading for Friday August 11, 2023

August 11, 2023

THINGS I CAN’T FIX — One of the sad realities of life is that we're awash in disorder that we can't fix. All around us, the world seethes and festers with...

Meditation reading for Friday August 4th, 2023

August 2, 2023

PERSONAL RELATIONS WITH FAMILY — Some of us grew up with resentments about the way our families treated us. It was confusing to notice how nice our parents...

Meditation reading for Friday July 28, 2023

July 28, 2023

GETTING IDEAS, GROUP INTELLIGENCE — "All of us know more than any one of us" is the saying that applies to 12 Step groups. No matter how much experience any...

Meditation reading for Friday July 21, 2023

July 21, 2023

HURRYING UP TO WAIT? — We often urge ourselves to hurry up when there's no good reason for it. At such times, all we really do is create needless tension and...

Meditation reading for Friday July 14, 2023

July 14, 2023

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...