A Sober Life

Father Leo’s Daily Meditation PROCRASTINATION “You cannot build a reputationon things you are going to do.” – Mabel Newcomber Procrastination is the addicts’ game. I will give up alcohol tomorrow. Soon I will take an inventory of my eating habits. Later I will talk to him about my anger and pain. Tomorrow and tomorrow — [...]

Keep It Simple I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.—Winston Churchill We addicts are used to learning the hard way. Many of us think we’re different and can do things our own way. But then we get in too much trouble or pain. The first AA members were just [...]

Fellowship is what we crave, To be joined with our friends, Today we mourn one to the grave, & at this time on God do we depend… So long Dick T. ———————————————————– This is a poem from one of my other blogs  In Memory of Dick T A good friend from my home group in [...]

Walk In Dry Places Erasing Old Tapes___Living Today The human brain works like a tape recorder. With great fidelity, this built-in recorder stores up old memories that are recalled at surprising times. There are two kinds of these “old tapes” that are dangerous to the recovering alcoholic. One dangerous old tape is a bitter memory [...]

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. [...]

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. – Mignon McLaughlin I do not have to have courage for a lifetime, just for the moment. I am helped by the philosophy that teaches me to live one day at a time, one hour at a time, [...]

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 [...]

Do not waste any time disliking who you are because of something you can no longer do anything about. Lord, help me to forgive myself all shortcomings of the past that I still hold on to and rather make the very best of this moment. We never really know how far reaching our influence will [...]