Thought for today: Humility is the answer to many of life’s problems, but we rarely see that when we are in the midst of troubling times. When we finally pocket our pride we can find new answers to old scenarios. DA Step 7 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. A member shares: “I had a lot of […]
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Thought for today: Taking a personal inventory isn’t for sissies. The defects of character we uncover can bring feelings of shame, remorse, fear. That’s why we took the Fifth Step with another human being who had been through the Steps and who knew what we were trying to carry out. Sharing our inventory with another person in the […]
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Thought for today: Being honest takes a deliberate effort. We need to acknowledge our inner thoughts and share them transparently with another human being. Step Five asks us to bring the lessons learned from the Fourth Step into our relationship with another human being, with our Higher Power, and with ourselves. The relationship between all three […]
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Thought for today: When we were debting, life was full of anxiety. Now, if we want to clear the emotional wreckage of the past, we need to take a fearless moral inventory. We need to carefully consider the recurring themes in our lives that have caused emotionally disruption. When we look inside in this new way, it helps our outer […]
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Thought for today: By the time we’ve come to Step 3, we have started to feel an awareness of a Power greater than us that we can tap into. We find ourselves drawn to this Power for guidance and inspiration. DA Step 3 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to […]
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Thought for today: Step 2 is like birthing a baby in one respect: No one can do it for you. People can give us advice about how they did it. They can cheer us on. (Sometimes that can be irritating, actually. Sometimes we don’t want to hear it, and we may wish that this Higher Power business could be […]
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Thought for today: The holiday season is a challenging time for compulsive debtors. We find ourselves inundated with commercials to spend. All our friends are spending. We feel compelled to overspend. It’s a time tout down the credit cards if we are using them. It’s time to remember the Twelve Steps, starting with the First […]
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Thought for today: If we watch the news, we will see things that bring us down. If we watch commercials on TV, we may start to feel deprived of the “goodies” they offer – for a price. Our time is our own. There is no moral code requiring us to watch news or commercials 24×7. […]
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Thought for today: Our self-talk can affect real change in our lives. They can enable wealth to start flowing in. They can also cause unexpected effects we need to consider. One thing to be careful of is to pick affirmations that keep us in a mode of positive attainment. Case in point: some affirmations seem to imply that […]
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Thought for today: Sometimes life’s challenges feel overwhelming, and we need a shortcut way to refocus on the principles of DA. That’s where slogans come in. To our knowledge, DA hasn’t adopted any slogans officially, but DA has approved AA literature, and much of AA literature uses the AA slogans, so we can start there. A […]
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