Keep it simple. Start it right. It’s a new day. Start by taking dogs out, repeating the Third Step Prayer as the water’s freshened, then circling the yard several times saying the Seventh Step Prayer, the Serenity Prayer, then the […]
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The Present Is a Gift
Because most worry focuses on the future, if we can learn to stay in the present, living one day or one moment at a time, we take positive steps toward warding off the effects of fear. ~ Family Groups, Al-Anon. Courage […]
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. ~ Henry Ward Beecher One day at a time. We can’t manage the one, need not try for […]
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer. ~ Gertrude Stein Because we strive only for perfection, we recognize nothing less; we block our awareness of the ordinary successes […]
Continue reading »Eight Years of Recovery Daily Dose
A simple event, really, a poem first published in OAStepper’s Slender Steps to Sanity: IN YOUR FACE April 5, 2011 You don’t know what it’s like, I’m a grievance to my folk, an anathema in my job, a worthless piece of […]
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