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January 6, 2026
I did not notice the change in myself until after it happened. While I was going through it, I was frustrated and impatient. I kept showing up. I kept praying. I didn’t give up. I did the work. One day I realized that the desire to drink was gone, the thoughts of suicide were gone,
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January 5, 2026
Alcohol used to make me feel at ease, until it stopped working. When I stopped drinking, I was afraid that nothing could do for me what alcohol did. It took time, but a regular daily practice of connecting with God fills that void. The God-sized hole in my soul was the problem all along. Now
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January 4, 2026
The choices I make each day determine my happiness. If I look for the negative in everything, it feeds upon itself and then everything seems negative. If I look for the gift or the lesson in everything, my days seem to be ok. I don’t enjoy pain, but any of my misery is because of
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January 3, 2026
Nobody likes to be judged, myself included. No one knows exactly what it’s like to “walk in my shoes”. It’s not fair for me to judge others. I really don’t know what another person experiences nor the lens through which they view them. I know what I’m feeling although I don’t always know why. So,
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January 2, 2026
“You are not alone.” I used to think that I was “terminally unique”, that no one else experienced that internal torture that I felt. That was until I found people who suffered from the same affliction. Our common problem brings us together. Our common solution keeps us together. I will be ok if I allow
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January 1, 2026
Happy New Year. For many of us it’s a fresh start, to engage in new resolutions, to look ahead with Hope. Every day, someone comes into their very first AA meeting and plants their ass in a seat in the back of the room. They hope to be unseen because that’s how they feel. They
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December 31, 2025
New Year’s Eve. Closing-out the year. In the past year, a lot of things changed around me. I made many new friends. They enrich my soul. I lost a few people. They remain in my memory. I helped a few people. I was helped by many. I tried to live one day at a time.
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December 30, 2025
I don’t really know how my life will turn out. I don’t really know what lies ahead. I do know where I have been, the choices I have made, and how I got here. I see glimpses of why I am here. I could never have predicted how beautiful my life would become. I could
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December 29, 2025
I can lie to myself all I want, but I still have to look at myself in the mirror. Denial of the truth is poisonous to my soul. There will always come the day when I see how flawed I am. Acceptance of the truth, opens the door to God’s Forgiveness. The sooner I get
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December 28, 2025
Perhaps God allows us to stray from Him so that we learn the pain of trying to live without Him. God never leaves us. When we experience enough self-inflicted pain, we almost always turn to God. Sometimes we ask God why we are being punished. Sometimes we ask God to save us. Do we ever
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