A Sober Life

People make mistakes, but seldom on purpose. Lord, may my patience with others grow and may I replace my frowns with smiles. If you want peace and goodness in your life you must be kind and loving. Lord, may I avoid creating misery so that my life will reflect my love for You. —————————————————————————————————— Now [...]

Charity sees the need, not the cause.–German proverb. Charity is not just giving money to good causes. Charity is having a heart that’s ready to give. Charity is helping a friend at two in the morning. Charity is going early to the meeting to put on coffee without being asked. Service is how Twelve Step [...]

In our addiction, we didn’t care. We didn’t care about other people, even though we wanted to. We just didn’t come through for them in ways that mattered. We didn’t care for ourselves. We let bad things happen to us. We didn’t care about living. We set no goals, had no fun, smelled no flowers. [...]

Self-acceptance. At the beginning of our AA sobriety, we were reminded that we were not reformers. Yet we sometimes have a tendency to want to “reform” ourselves or others after we’ve established sobriety. This can become a practice of “fixing things that aren’t broken”. We may not realize it, but many things in our lives [...]

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss wants, small minds discuss people. – Laurence J. Peter Gossip is ultimately a form of malicious cowardice. It is a “blasphemy” because it seeks to denigrate the human being that God has made in His image. As a practicing alcoholic I was a gossip. I exaggerated and manipulated [...]