December 12
I’ll just take it one day at a time, and when I’m ready, I’ll be ready. It’ll reveal itself, I guess.
~America Ferrera
We are to take with us only the joys and problems of the present day. We don’t carry with us the mistakes of days gone by. We have no room for them. We are to work at loving ourselves and others today. Just today.
It’s crazy for us to think we can handle more than one day at a time. During our illness, we lived everywhere but in the here and now. We looked to the future or punished ourselves with our past. The AA slogan “One day at a time” teaches us to go easy. It teaches us to focus on what really means anything to us: the here and now.
Prayer for the Day
Higher Power, help me turn the slogans of my programs into a way of life. Help me to live life moment by moment, one day at a time.
Action for the Day
Today I’ll practice living in the present. When I find myself living in the past or in the future, I’ll bring myself back to today.
Today's reading is from the book Keep it Simple: Daily Meditations for Twelve Step Beginnings and Renewal
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"No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy
AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt
We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time!
God says that each of us is worth loving.
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