Saturday, May 28, 2016
May 28, 2016 - 'Glee' actor Mark Salling indicted on child pornography charges
May 28, 2016 - Indiana Gov. Mike Pence risks re-election loss over religious freedom law
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| Ind. Gov. Mike Pence (R) |
May 28, 2016 - Editorial: Religious conservatives rethinking their role in the culture war
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| Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary via Associated Press) |
May 28, 2016 - Readings in Recovery: Today's Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation
Saturday, May 28, 2016
Today's thought from the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein
-- Albert Einstein
We used to think we knew it all. We had grandiose ideas about ourselves. We stopped asking hard questions that could cause our fragile world of make-believe and deviousness to come crashing down. We protected our addiction by fleeing from the questions that could have started us on the road to recovery.
One day the questions flooded in unchecked. Why am I out of control? How come I can't look my beloved in the eye? Why don't I have time for my friends? Why do I get irritated with my children? Why do I feel so bad about myself, so filled with shame? Why can't I cope? Why is my life unmanageable?
Unmanageable? When we feel this question deeply, then we are already on the road to recovery, for we know we can't continue to go it alone. The question suggests an answer; we need others, a different system of support, a program of recovery, a Higher Power, serenity, love.
This is what we really wanted and needed, and this is what we find in our Twelve Step program.
Learning to be honest means continuing to ask questions about ourselves and our situation in the world.
You are reading from the book:
Answers in the Heart © 1989 by P. Williamson and S. Kiser
May 28, 2016 - Readings in Recovery: Step by Step
Step by Step
Saturday, May 28, 2016
Today, my character defects in my Fourth and the amends in my Eighth steps are not confined to wrongs of commission but also to my wrongs of omission. With that, my Fourth and Eighth steps, hopefully, will be more honest. My moral inventory and amends I have tried before have focused on things I have done or said, but they have not included my wrongs done by not saying or doing what I should have. Maybe I neglected or refused to return love or support that someone showed me in my darkest days, or maybe I didn't answer someone's call for help. Today, I return to my Fourth and Eighth steps to decide if I owe restitution not for what I did, but for what I didn't do. And our common journey continues. Step by step. - Chris M., 2016
May 28, 2016 - Readings in Recovery: Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Saturday, May 28, 2016
AA Thought for the Day
In AA, we learn that since we are alcoholics we can be uniquely useful people. That is, we can help other alcoholics when perhaps somebody who has not had our experience with drinking could not help them. That makes us uniquely useful. The AA's are a unique group of people because they have taken their own greatest defeat and failure and sickness and used it as a means of helping others. We who have been through the same thing are the ones who can best help other alcoholics.
Do I believe that I can be uniquely useful?
Meditation for the Day
I should try to practice the presence of God. I can feel that He is with me and near me, protecting and strengthening me always. In spite of every difficulty, every trial, every failure, the presence of God suffices. Just to believe that He is near me brings strength and peace. I should try to live as though God were beside me. I cannot see Him because I was not made with the ability to see Him else there were no room for faith. But I can feel His spirit with me.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may try to practice the presence of God. I pray that by doing so I may never feel alone or helpless again.
Hazelden Foundation
May 28, 2016 - Readings in Recovery: A Day at a Time
Saturday, May 28, 2016
Reflection for the Day
We've all had times when we felt alienated, when it seemed we had nowhere to turn and no one to turn to. When we don't know which way to turn, when there seems to be no one to help us, even then we're not alone or without help - the presence of God is always with us. When we need strength or courage or comfort, God is there with us as the help we need. Even before we turn to God, His love reaches out to us; His loving Spirit in us hears our cry and answers us.
Do I truly believe that I no longer need be alone?
Today I Pray
May I never be alone, even in a place by myself, if I take time to talk to my Higher Power. May He be my companion, my joy, my ever-present help in trouble. May the knowledge of His constant presence fill me with calm, so that I will not fear either the solitude of my own room or alienation in a roomful of people.
Today I Will Remember
Listen for the presence of God.
Hazelden Foundation
May 28, 2016 - Readings in Recovery: The Eye Opener
Saturday, May 28, 2016
Love is as necessary to a human being as sunshine is to a plant. Without it, the soul of man withers, shrivels and dies. Fortunate is the man who has love given to him, but even more fortunate is he who earns it. The only way to earn love is to love. Thou shalt love thy God with all thy heart and thy neighbor as thyself.
He who hoards love shall lose it, but he who scatters love about him as he moves through life finds that it takes root and surrounds him on every side.
Hazelden Foundation
Friday, May 27, 2016
May 27, 2016 - Commentary: It's OK to be a single gay man
May 27, 2016 - Photo gallery: After conquering DWTS, what's next for supermodel Nyle DiMarco?
May 27, 2016 - How hard can it be to cast a gay actor in a gay role?
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| Actor Elliot Fletcher |
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