Voices of Recovery
August 27
Most of us know that we are ready to sponsor when another member asks us, or when our own sponsor encourages us to take on a sponsee….
August 28
There really is no point at which I stop and God starts. My ego-centered life is based on fear and scarcity, but a God-centered life is based on love and abundance….
August 29
We recognize that our shortcomings are not unique, and that we are not better or worse than anyone else. When we live with this knowledge, we do not expect perfection from ourselves or others….
August 30
We look honestly at the defects that drove our behavior, such as selfishness, desire for control, an attitude of entitlement, or feelings of inferiority of superiority….
August 31
Maintaining the freedom we have found requires daily conscious contact with the God of our understanding, expressed by practicing the spiritual principles we have learned in recovery….
September 1
Our character defects…have caused us a great deal of suffering throughout our lives and prevented us from completely aligning ourselves with our Higher Power’s will for us….
September 2
As the reality of our shortcomings sinks in, we can bring them, in humility, to our Higher Power….
September 3
If we feel overwhelmed in this way, we turn to the God of our understanding and to our program friends for support in facing the pain of our actions and finding the willingness to make amends….
September 4
Meetings are places where we can drop our emotional defenses and get honest in a way we are rarely able to experience outside of the fellowship….
September 5
Admitting that our willpower is insufficient allows us to be open to new ways of thinking and living….