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Meditation reading for Friday July 7, 2023
July 7, 2023
GOD’S WILL FOR US –– "I was afraid God would want me to do something unpleasant, like go off to become a monk," a young man said at a 12 Step meeting....
Meditation reading for Friday June 30, 2023
June 30, 2023
THE KEY IS WILLINGNESS –– Although willpower alone does not work in overcoming alcoholism, there is a place for the will, or willingness, in the search for a...
Meditation reading for Friday June 23, 2023
June 23, 2023
EXPRESSING GRATITUDE — How can we express gratitude when we feel it? We can begin by simply using the proper forms of courtesy at all times; this reminds us...
Meditation reading for Friday June 16, 2023
June 16, 2023
TRUE SATISFACTION — True satisfaction never comes from feeding addiction. Nothing is ever enough. The only possible outcomes for those who do not seek...
Meditation reading for Friday June 9, 2023
June 9, 2023
WHAT CAN WE CHANGE? — There's always danger that resignation will masquerade as acceptance. In 12 Step programs, we must learn the difference between the...
Meditation reading for Friday June 2, 2023
June 2, 2023
WHY ADMITTING WHEN WE’RE WRONG IS RIGHT — Sometimes it's painful or almost impossible to admit that we've been wrong. This means we'll probably go on making...
Meditation reading for Friday May 26, 2023
May 26, 2023
COURAGE — We have to take certain risks if we hope to achieve anything. Applying for a job entails a risk of rejection. Saving money carries a risk of losing...
Meditation reading for Friday May 19, 2023
May 19, 2023
REHEARSING OUTCOMES — Imagination is undeniably a human faculty that accounts for much progress in the world. Compulsive people, however, can sometimes use...
Meditation reading for Friday May 12, 2023
May 12, 2023
HONESTY — Honesty does not mean that we should say everything we think or feel. Many of our thoughts and feelings are momentary and transient. They are often...
Meditation reading for Friday May 5, 2023
May 5, 2023
DEALING WITH FEAR — Some of us suffer from free-floating anxiety that is like a general fear, while others have specific fears that cause distress. Sometimes...
Meditation reading for Friday April 28, 2023
April 28, 2023
HAPPINESS — 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 others. Being...
Meditation reading for Friday April 21, 2023
April 21, 2023
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 14, 2023
April 14, 2023
LIVING HERE AND NOW… Despite all evidence that we must live for today, some of us persist in trying to recapture the past. We may be holding a few good...
Meditation reading for Friday April 7, 2023
April 7, 2023
DESERVING HAPPINESS – Somewhere in the course of living sober, we should realize that we deserve to be happy. If happiness is eluding us, the fault may lie...
Meditation reading for Friday March 31, 2023
March 31, 2023
THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES — Some times seemingly insignificant things happen that end up being major turning points in our lives. A chance meeting, for...
Meditation reading for Friday March 24, 2023
March 24, 2023
EXPECT MIRACLES — Some have claimed that there have been no miracles since the fourteenth century. This is a smug way of saying that miracles do not happen....
Meditation reading for Friday March 17, 2023
March 17, 2023
ANGER, A DANGEROUS WEAPON — One reason some of us have trouble overcoming anger is that we've used it too often as an offensive weapon. It can be employed as...
Meditation reading for Friday March 10, 2023
March 10, 2023
CONTINUED GROWTH — "You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was." - Abraham Lincoln Each of us has been given recovery. Now...
Meditation reading for Friday March 3, 2023
March 3, 2023
THE CARE OF OUR HIGHER POWER — Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him (Step Three) This is what we turn...
Meditation reading for Friday February 24, 2023
February 24, 2023
STAYING ON COURSE — When riding in an airplane on automatic pilot, I marvel at the way the aircraft stays on course even while bouncing and shaking through...
Meditation reading for Friday February 17, 2023
February 17, 2023
UNEXPECTED DISAPPOINTMENTS & ACCEPTANCE — As life unfolds, we sometimes get unexpected disappointments that seem undeserved the — car breaks down, a business...
Meditation reading for Friday February 10, 2023
February 10, 2023
Getting started Today — For the recovering person, every assignment or day's work can have a disagreeable moment. The problem is getting started—overcoming...
Meditation reading for Friday February 3, 2023
February 2, 2023
SAVORING THE MOMENTS — We do not remember days, we remember moments — Cesare Pavese It's the moment that's important. Each moment holds choice. Our spirits...
Meditation reading for Friday January 27, 2023
January 27, 2023
Meditation reading for Friday January 27, 2023 Willingness is the Key — Although willpower alone does not work in overcoming alcoholism, there is a place for...
Meditation reading for Friday January 20, 2023
January 23, 2023
Meditation reading for Friday January 20, 2023 THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD — Love and goodwill. In a famous sermon, Henry Drummond described love as a...
Meditation reading for Friday January 13, 2023
January 23, 2023
Meditation reading for Friday January 13, 2023 GOOD ORDERLY DIRECTION — Sometimes we find help and power in staying sober, yet feel naked and alone when...
Meditation reading for Friday January 6, 2023
January 23, 2023
Meditation reading for Friday January 6, 2023 FINDING COURAGE — Fear, a universal human emotion, strikes each of us in different ways. The brave parachute...