A Day at a Time Reflections
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APRIL 7 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "If you slip, get up"
Our spiritual and emotional growth in the Gamblers Anonymous Program doesn't depend so deeply upon success as it does upon our failures and setbacks. If we bear this in mind, a relapse can have the…
APRIL 6 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Abstinence is never fail-safe"
What do we say to a person who has slipped, or one who calls for help? We can carry the message, if the person is willing to listen; we can share our experience, strength, and hope. Perhaps the most…
APRIL 5 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "The craziness of yesterday"
Still another common thread we invariably see among slippers is that many of them felt dissatisfaction with today. "I forgot we live one day at a time," or "I began to anticipate the future," or "I…
APRIL 4 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Watch my steps"
Another common denominator among those who slip is failure to use the tools of the Gamblers Anonymous Program the Twelve Steps. The comments heard most often are, “I never did work the Steps," "I…
A NEW BEGINNING STEP 4 "Inventory"
STEP 4 Made a searching and fearless moral and financial inventory of ourselves. Trust your Higher Power and then clean house. The first three steps have laid the groundwork for Step Four; surrender…
APRIL 3 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Attend the meetings"
In almost every instance, the returned slipper says, "I stopped going to meetings," or "I got fed up with the same old stories and the same old faces," or "My outside commitments were such that I had…
APRIL 2 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Keep coming back"
What causes slips? What happens to a person who apparently seems to understand and live the Twelve Step way, yet decides to go out gambling again? What can I do to keep this from happening to me? Is…
APRIL 1 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Avoid slippery places"
If we don't want to slip, we'll avoid slippery places. For the gambler, that means shunning poker parties and race tracks and anywhere that gambling is taking place. For me, certain emotional…
MARCH 31 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
My illness is unlike most other illnesses in that denial that I am sick is a primary symptom of my sickness. Like many other incurable illnesses, however, my illness is characterized by relapses. In…
MARCH 30 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Humility is Freedom"
Absolute humility means freedom from myself, freedom from the demands that my character defects place so heavily upon me. Humility means the willingness to discover and carry out the will of God.…
MARCH 29 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "The Program has answers"
Why do people gamble compulsively? Dr. Robert Custer, a pioneer in the treatment of compulsive gambling, believed we have four basic human needs - affection, approval, recognition, and…
MARCH 28 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Do my part"
We must think deeply of all those sick persons still to come to Gamblers Anonymous. As they try to make their return to faith and to life, we want them to find everything in the Program that we have…
MARCH 27 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Don't rattle old bones"
Storing up grievances is not only a waste of time, but a waste of life that could be lived to greater satisfaction. If I keep a ledger of "oppressions and indignities," I'm only restoring them to…
MARCH 26 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Let God show us how"
I know today that getting active means trying to live the Steps of the Gamblers Anonymous Program to the best of my ability. It means striving for some degree of honesty, first with myself, then with…
MARCH 25 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "To each his own"
If a compulsive gambler wants to live successfully in society, he or she must replace the power of gambling over his/her life with the power of something else-preferably positive, at least neutral,…
MARCH 24 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "A day at a time"
All of us are faced with the troubles and problems of daily living, whether we've been in Gamblers Anonymous two days or twenty years. We'd sometimes like to believe we could take care of all our…
MARCH 23 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Hear my own complaints"
Gamblers Anonymous teaches us, through the experience, strength, and hope of its Fellowship, that the worst situation imaginable does not warrant a return to gambling. No matter how bad a particular…
MARCH 22 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
Once in a great while, I find myself thinking that perhaps things weren't quite so bad as they seemed to be. At such moments, I force myself to realize that my illness is talking to me, trying to…
MARCH 21 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Be wary of new theories"
The Gamblers Anonymous Program teaches us that we have an incurable illness. We always get worse, never better. But we're fortunate in that our incurable illness can be arrested, one day at a time,…
MARCH 20 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "First things first"
The longer I'm in Gamblers Anonymous, the more important becomes the slogan, "First Things First." I used to believe that my family came first, that my home life came first, that my job came first.…
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