Category: Daily Missives

Everything I do, God sees.

That includes everything.

God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.

It seems that the world is pretty disturbed. It’s hard to not notice. It’s hard to not let it affect me.

I need to remember that everyone is going through something. Some have it tougher than others.

I can either be part of the problem or part of the solution. I need to treat others today with a little more kindness.

God, please bring comfort to the sick, the hungry, the lonely, the desperate, and the grieving.

God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.

I cannot carry around worry about tomorrow, it will get here soon enough. 

Worry interferes with my ability to clearly see my purpose for today.

If I take care of today, tomorrow will take care of itself – tomorrow.

God, please stay close to me today and help me to stay close to you.

God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.

Sometimes I get frustrated with God when things take too long to materialize for me.

Sometimes I get frustrated with God when things happen too soon for me.

I’m easily pleased when things go “my way”.

It’s plain to see that I get frustrated when my will does not align with God’s Will.

God is not the one with the problem. I am.

Accepting God’s Will, whether I like or not, is the key to my peace and serenity.

I don’t need to understand God’s Will. I just need to accept it.

God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.

I believe that the measure of a person is how they treat others.

Each one of us has the ability to show and receive love, kindness, and compassion towards others.

Those are the characteristics we will be appreciated and remembered for.

Those are the characteristics that God wants for us. God remembers and rewards us for those too.

God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.

Alcoholism is a soul-eating disease. The disease is detected through excessive use of alcohol.

It is self-diagnosed. Until I admit that I am alcoholic, no treatment will relieve my alcoholism.

The treatment entails removal of the alcohol followed by practicing a series of specific steps.

My alcoholism never goes away and requires daily care.

The ongoing preventative treatment requires the reliance upon a “Power Greater than Ourselves”.

It is only by the Grace of God am I Blessed with another day.

God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.

If I don’t pay attention to my attitudes, my old ways of being will return. I am not immune from being a “jerk”.

I have done a lot of work to try and change the ways that I think, feel, and act. God has removed my shortcomings as He sees fit.

I have to work at it each day, no matter what happens around me.

That means I have to be aware of how God wants me to be each day.

God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.

My hope wasn’t restored all at once.  It was restored in “crumbs”.

One day at a time, I tried to live without going backwards.

I went to meetings and listened to people who had been where I was. I listened to how they put their lives back together.

It’s amazing how God taught me through the voices of so many different people.

I always heard what I needed to hear, not what I wanted to hear.

I did what they did. I still do.

I’m right where I’m supposed to be  – where God needs me to be.

God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.

There is a big difference between “knowing” what to do and “doing” what needs to be done.

“Knowing” is often easy. “Doing” is often hard.

“Doing” sometimes requires that I am uncomfortable. Sometimes it is not popular. Sometimes it requires sacrifice. Sometimes it requires such great change that I am petrified. Often I have nothing to gain, but I do it for someone else. It always requires commitment.

Doing the next right thing requires clarity and courage. It always requires Guidance from God.

I know what I have to do. I just have to do it.

God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.

A guy named “Jimmy L.” used to say that he had never come across  an alcoholic who drank on a day when he got on his knees and asked God for help.

For a guy like me who was desperate to not drink, it certainly was worth a try.

Check that box. It worked. After all these years, it still works.

As powerful as the substances were for me, it turns out that God is most Powerful.

Turning my life over to the Care of God saved it. It’s that simple.

God, please help me to be ok today. Thank You. Amen.