“Hope & the possibility of a new beginning started to build in my heart.”

Three readings. A song that says the rest. And inspiration for whatever this day is here to teach.

A lone surfer riding inside a great curling wave

Read — the readings that opened the day

A Deep Breath of Life

Alan Cohen

“An entire world of blessing is available to us in our dreams. Before going to sleep, prepare yourself to receive the richest gifts in your dream world. Read uplifting material, listen to gentle music, or meditate before retiring. As you close your eyes, ask the Holy Spirit and your guides to come to you during your sleep time and bless you with rest, healing, and any information or visions that will help you spiritually. Thank God for your day and the night to come; be open and receptive to God's guidance and healing. Happy dreams! Father, be with me tonight. Speak to me through my visions.”

Adapted from A Deep Breath of Life

Choose Love

Louise Hay

“Letting go of criticism, judgments and fear open the door to love! As we learn to let go, we can love ourselves and others. In the Piscean Age we looked “out there” for our savior: “Save me. Save me. Please take care of me.” Now we are moving into the Aquarian Age, and we are learning to go within to find our savior. We are the power we have been seeking. Love is something we can choose the same way we choose anger, hate, sadness. We can choose to forgive someone who has hurt us and begin to finally heal. We can choose to be grateful for what we have. We can choose love.It’s always a choice within us. Let’s begin right now to choose love. It’s the most powerful healing force there is in the universe, and inside each one of us.”

Adapted from Choose Love

Twenty-Four Hours a Day

Meditation for the Day “A faith without joy is not entirely genuine. If you are not happier as a result of your faith, there is probably something wrong with it. Faith in God should bring you a deep feeling of happiness and security, no matter what happens on the surface of your life. Each new day is another opportunity to serve God and improve your relationships with other people. This should bring joy. Life should be abundant and outreaching. It should be glowing and outgoing, in ever widening circles. Prayer for the Day I pray that my horizons may grow ever wider. I pray that I may keep reaching out for more service and companionship.”

Reflect — Steve L.'s own words

What is LOVE! My experience is when I had a drink, a quaalude and a line of cocaine, I was in love! With life, with you, and with myself. 15 years after my first adventure with that combination, I sat in a Motel 6 in Clovis NM, dope sick, shaking. What happened to the feeling of love?

Upon walking into the doors of recovery 4 months later, it didn’t seem to be an entrance to paradise. The curtains didn’t match; the people were a bit too strange, the coffee was served in cheap Styrofoam cups. But after a few meetings with my sponsor, reading a stupid Book called "The Big Book", something started to change. Hope & possibility of a new beginning started to build in my heart. My head fought it; you told me to keep reading, work the 12 Steps, going to meetings and to try and pass it on. I did; it was better than where I had been 6 months before. This journey has continued to open LOVE.

Last night on the 6pm Men’s Zoom mtg, people from all over the world joined in to hear my friend Fernando share on Step 4. The causes and conditions that got us here tell the same story; from detachment of feelings & inflating the ego, we loved everything: until we didn’t. GOD was gift of desperation. Today, one of LOVE. Today, I get to meet up with Walter, 92 years old, and give him his 42-year medallion! From despair and self-hatred, thanks for opening the unsuspected mysterious door to LOVE; let it rain down on you and me!