“Somehow, it all had unfolded in the goodness you promised early in sobriety.”

“In his movie, Sleeper, Woody Allen is accidentally frozen in a hospital and wakes up 500 years in the future. When the technicians who revive him tell him what year it is, he exclaims, "My God! I'd almost be done with therapy by now!" The goal of therapy is to get us up and functioning; to encourage patients to live their own lives, make their own decisions, and move on to the next level. It's time to get on with living life, which will teach us in joyful ways in celebration. Today, help me to trust You to reveal my true goodness; to me give me the simple heart of a child that I may enter Your kingdom.”

Adapted from A Deep Breath of Life

“…..Ask any of the older members in the program, and they will readily tell you that since they turned their lives over to the care of God as they understand Him, many of their problems have banished into the forgotten yesterdays. When you allow yourself to be upset over one thing, you succeed only in opening the door to hundreds of other upsetting things. Today, what is it that I’m allowing myself to be upset over?”

Adapted from Twenty-Four Hours a Day

“I pray that you carry with you love, peace & joy. That you become the sunshine of God’s love, the hope of eternal happiness; the burning flame of love wherever you go. That you become carriers of God’s love; that you be able to give what you have received. For you have received Love not to keep but to share.”

Adapted from The Joy in Loving