December 3, 2025

 Listen to Learn or Learn to Listen. Either way, it speaks to me about meditation. I have heard it said that prayer is talking to God, or your higher power if the word God unsettles you. Meditation is listening for the answer to your question. By listening, we learn.

December 2, 2025 - First Things First

 First Things First reminds me of the reading in our book on step eleven that tells me upon awakening we consider our plans for the day. Before we begin we ask God to direct our thinking, so the first thing we do each day is pray. Someone I know says that the days I pray almost always turn out better than the days I don't. Most good ideas are simple.

December 1, 2025 - Love

 Love is my word today. Love comes in many forms and there are many ways to express love. When I bake cookies and bring them to a meeting, it's a way to show my love and gratitude to the new person. When I knit a scarf or a blanket and give it to someone less fortunate than I, then again it is out of love.

November 30, 2025 - Into Action

 My sponsor told me that step one would identify the problem - a lack of power. Step two would offer me a solution to my problem - Power. In step three I would get the opportunity to make up my mind, do I want to continue on the path to destruction or do I want to live in the solution? Once I decided to stay here, it would be necessary to take the steps that would apply the solution to the problem, the program of action. Here I am, 28 years sober, still launching into action.

November 29, 2025 - Surrender

 I blogged a bit just now about the weather and how we are unable to control what the weather around here will be life. We have to accept the hand we are dealt, to surrender to what it will be, to accept life on life's terms. My word today was surrender.

November 28, 2025 - Service

 Service. On November 28, 2012, me and a few other like-minded persons, started a non-profit. That's actually the day it was incorporated. The purpose of the non profit was to perform service within our community, which we performed well over the next 12 years. It always reminds me that service work is not only done in the fellowship nor is it always done in church, it is often performed out there, in the world. We are presented with opportunities to give a little something back to the community that we took so much from when we were drinking.

November 27, 2025 - Tolerance

 Tolerance never gets old with me. Part of the slogan live and let live. Allowing others the right to think, believe and act as they see fit, even if what they think is not what I think, and even if what they believe is not what I believe, and even if what they do is not what I would do.