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Wednesday, April 2, 2014
An unlikely alliance as both gay, anti-gay activists call for boycott of Firefox
The New Civil Rights Movement: April 2, 2014 - Common Ground? Gay And Anti-Gay Activists Now Demanding Firefox Boycott
Boy Scouts says fired gay scoutmaster had 'personal agenda'
The New Civil Rights Movement: April 2, 2014 - Boy Scouts: ‘No Choice’ But To Fire Gay Scoutmaster – Using BSA ‘To Further Personal Agenda’
Mississippi approves anti-gay religious freedom law
LGBTQ Nation/Wire services: April 2, 2014 - Miss. approves religious freedom bill that could allow anti-gay discrimination – LGBTQ Nation
April 2, 2014 - Today's Gift from Hazelden
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Today's thought from Hazelden is:
Unless our desire for human compassion is stronger than our desire to be right, to be secure or to belong, love will elude us.
-- Marsha Sinetar
Knowing we are loved is what most of us crave. For brief moments we feel it; then it eludes us once again. Why does it slip through our fingers so quickly? One way of attracting the love we desire is to be willing to love others. What we give to others comes back to us. Unfortunately, we may give judgment, impatience, or anger far more often than we give love.
We can learn to give compassion. First we need to make the decision to be compassionate. Then we need to act as if we're comfortable doing this. When we have practiced it awhile, we'll discover that giving love and receiving the love we crave is within our grasp.
I will feel loved when I give love away. I don't need to be right today. I need to be loved.
Unless our desire for human compassion is stronger than our desire to be right, to be secure or to belong, love will elude us.
-- Marsha Sinetar
Knowing we are loved is what most of us crave. For brief moments we feel it; then it eludes us once again. Why does it slip through our fingers so quickly? One way of attracting the love we desire is to be willing to love others. What we give to others comes back to us. Unfortunately, we may give judgment, impatience, or anger far more often than we give love.
We can learn to give compassion. First we need to make the decision to be compassionate. Then we need to act as if we're comfortable doing this. When we have practiced it awhile, we'll discover that giving love and receiving the love we crave is within our grasp.
I will feel loved when I give love away. I don't need to be right today. I need to be loved.
From the book:
A Woman's Spirit by Karen Casey. © 1994 by Hazelden Foundation
April 2, 2014 - Step by Step
Step by StepWednesday, April 2, 2014
Today, I will not carry the pattern of compulsive and habitual behavior I perfected in my drinking days to other areas of my life. As a drinking alcoholic, I established the pattern of feeling and taking everything to an unhealthy and inappropriate extreme - all or nothing. That pattern is not necessarily in remission simply because my active alcoholism is. To shift the habitual and compulsive nature of my drinking to work, play, service or any other activity can be almost as self-defeating. And it is through the Steps of character rehabilitation that I need to tame the behavioral patterns of my character. Today, I will seek a balance between giving everything, taking all and retaining what I need for myself by seeking the guidance of my Higher Power and reciting a potpourri of the Program's mottoes, including "A Day at a Time," "First Things First," "Keep It Simple" and "Easy Does It." And our common journey continues. Step by step. - Chris M., 2014
April 2, 2014 - Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
AA Thought for the Day
Since I've been in AA, have I made a start towards becoming more loving to my family and friends? Do I visit my parents? Am I more appreciative of my spouse than I was before? Am I grateful to my family for having put up with me? Have I found real understanding with my children? Do I feel that the friends I've found in AA are real friends? Do I believe that they are always ready to help me and do I want to help them if I can?
Do I really care now about other people?
Meditation for the Day
Not what you do so much as what you are, that is the miracle-working power. You can be a force for good, with the help of God. God is here to help you and to bless you, here to company with you. You can be a worker with God. Changed by God's grace, you shed one garment of the spirit for a better one. In time, you throw that one aside for yet a finer one. And so from character to character, you are gradually transformed.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may accept every challenge. I pray that each acceptance of a challenge may make me grow into a better person.
Hazelden Foundation
April 2, 2014 - A Day at a Time
A Day at a Time
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Reflection for the Day
What causes slips? What happens to a person who apparently seems to understand and live the way of The Program, yet decides to go out again? What can I do to keep this from happening to me? Is there any consistency among those who slip, any common denominators that seem to apply? We can each draw our own conclusions, but we learn in The Program that certain inactions will all but guarantee an eventual slip.
When a person who has slipped is fortunate enough to return to The Program, do I listen carefully to what he or she says about the slip?
Today I Pray
May my Higher Power - if I listen to Him - show me if I am setting myself up to get high again. May I glean from the experiences of others that the reasons for such a lapse of resolve or such an accident of will most often stem from what I have not done rather than from what I have done. May I "keep coming back" to meetings.
Today I Will Remember
Keep coming back.
Hazelden Foundation
April 2, 2014 - The Eye Opener
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Today, I will not carry the pattern of compulsive and habitual behavior I perfected in my drinking days to other areas of my life. As a drinking alcoholic, I established the pattern of feeling and taking everything to an unhealthy and inappropriate extreme - all or nothing. That pattern is not necessarily in remission simply because my active alcoholism is. To shift the habitual and compulsive nature of my drinking to work, play, service or any other activity can be almost as self-defeating. And it is through the Steps of character rehabilitation that I need to tame the behavioral patterns of my character. Today, I will seek a balance between giving everything, taking all and retaining what I need for myself by seeking the guidance of my Higher Power and reciting a potpourri of the Program's mottoes, including "A Day at a Time," "First Things First," "Keep It Simple" and "Easy Does It." And our common journey continues. Step by step. - Chris M., 2014
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
GOP candidate wants to jail gays who don't submit to conversion therapy
The New Civil Rights Movement: April 1, 2014 - Gay People Should Be Jailed If They Don’t Submit To ‘Ex-Gay’ Therapy Says Lively
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