August 19
AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote
Everybody knows that those in bad health, and those who seldom play, do not laugh much. So let each family play together or seperately, as much as their circumstances warrent. We are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free. We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us. – Pgs. 132-133 – The Family Afterward
Hour To Hour – Book – Quote
All our past ‘good intentions’ were fragmentary at best, facades at worse. Some of us didn’t mean to mess things up, some of us did mean to, always justifying our inadequacies by blaming parents, spouses, society, or God. This hour we must accept who we are, and stop looking around for the culprit–he is us!
May I recognize, as this program teaches, that I am at the root of my own problems and this hour, I can be at the root of my recovery.
Past Anger and Resentment
I need to find a way to experience my old anger and resentment without living in it. When I live in it, I ruin my own day. When I deny it, I create a dark spot on my emotional lungs that keeps me from being able to breathe deeply and fully. When I get lost in anger and resentment, I spend all my time justifying why I have a right to be angry and making all of my painful or negative feelings about someone else and not me. When I pretend that I don’t have anger that I do have, I keep myself from feeling and processing it, I hold myself back from learning and growing from what I will learn about myself and the disease. Today, I will allow myself to feel my own anger and see what it has to tell me before I dump it, act it out, make it about someone or something else or medicate it. I will sit with it and let it sit with me. I will witness my feelings without trying to control them.
– Tian Dayton PhD
Pocket Sponsor – Book – Quote
God didn’t do it!
God doesn’t do anything to me, but always through me.
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Walk Softly and Carry a Big Book” – Book
If you’re not working with others, then others will be working with you.
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Time for Joy – Book – Quote
Today I am beginning to experience all that I am, a unique and interdependent human being.
I feel unique and alive and unlimited.
I am free to experience love and joy.
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Alkiespeak – Book – Quote
He asked how she could tell if her husband was lying. She said; ‘Watch his lips. If they move, he’s lying. – Anon.