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Tolerance Today I try to replace my fear and intolerance with faith, patience, love and acceptance. I can bring these strengths to my AA group, my home and my office. I make an effort to bring my positive attitude everywhere that I go. I have neither the right, nor the responsibility, to judge others. . . When I think of some of my past judgments, it is clear how my self-righteousness caused me spiritual harm. Thought to Ponder....What if I... Read More
Taken from the book 24 Hours a DayThought for the Day I no longer try to escape life through alcoholism. Drinking built up an unreal world for me and I tried to live in it. But in the morning light the real life was back again and facing it was harder than ever, because I had less resources with which to meet it. Each attempt at escape weakened my personality by the very attempt. Everyone knows that alcohol, by relaxing inhibitions, permits a flight from reality. Alcohol... Read More
Taken from the book 24 Hours a DayThought for the Day I no longer try to escape life through alcoholism. Drinking built up an unreal world for me and I tried to live in it. But in the morning light the real life was back again and facing it was harder than ever, because I had less resources with which to meet it. Each attempt at escape weakened my personality by the very attempt. Everyone knows that alcohol, by relaxing inhibitions, permits a flight from reality. Alcohol... Read More
Finding Fulfillment"We weren't oriented toward fulfillment; we focused on the emptiness and worthlessness of it all." There were probably hundreds of times in our active addiction when we wished we could become someone else. We may have wished we could trade places with someone who owned a nice car or had a larger home, a better job, a more attractive mate anything but what we had. So severe was our despair that we could hardly imagine anyone being in worse... Read More
I'm so proud of myself. I got a bulletin in the mail today from my church, and I found out their 12 step group was meeting tonite, and I have the day off. No excuses! So I went.It was really hard to walk in there, and I felt very awkward at first since there were only 3 other people there when I got there, but more trickled in over time. I enjoyed a few peoples stories, it sounded like they were telling mine, but at some points and towards the end I was drifting, wond... Read More
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