“Yesterday, my inner chief critic was raging.”

“I realized that it is possible to believe in a Higher Power, in the efficacy of prayer and meditation, in making a conscious contact with a Higher Power as those concepts, privately understood – or not understood – are suggested without the loss of one iota of my precious identity.”

Adapted from AA Grapevine

“The book, A Sense of Something Greater, goes deeper than simply a mindfulness trend. The practice of Zen is more than awareness – it extends into daily life by bringing full attention and care to whatever we are doing. It’s a continued determination to be authentic in relationships, to create meaningful, intimate, intentional bonds with people, things, and the environment.”

Adapted from A Sense of Something Greater

Meditation for the Day “Be expectant. Constantly expect better things. Believe that what God has in store for you is better than anything you ever had before. The way to grow old happily is to expect better things right up to the end of your life and even beyond that. A good life is a growing, expanding life, with ever-widening horizons, a greater circle of friends and acquaintances & an ever-greater opportunity for usefulness. Prayer for the Day I pray that I may await with complete faith for the next good thing in store for me. I pray that I may always keep an expectant attitude toward life.”

Adapted from Twenty-Four Hours a Day© 1975 by Hazelden Foundation. All rights reserved.