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04-20-2024, 07:19 AM	#21
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 75,620	April 20 Avoiding self-pity Our troubled lives and mixed-up emotions can easily draw pity from those who would help us. Sometimes we even exaggerate our history or current situation to get more pity. In the program we share our feelings to avoid self-pity because we know how destructive it can be. When we say, "This too shall pass," for example, we are not giving our fellows the brush-off. Rather we are saying, "Don't wallow in self-pity; it's a killer. We've all experienced similar situations. Your Higher Power loves you and it will pass!" Have I stopped pitying myself? Higher Power, help me to remember that pity leads only to self-pity and that I want to change that pattern. Today I will work on avoiding self-pity by... Today's reading is from the book Day by Day: Daily Meditations for Recovering Addicts* __________________ "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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