Make Your Someday, Every Day!
“Do I realize that I do not know how much time I have left? It may be later than I think.” That’s how today’s Thought for the Day in Twenty-Four Hours a Day opens. Talk about a wake-up call on a Monday morning! A few lines later it asks the question I want to sit […]
Be a Student of Life!
“True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith . . .” That line from Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions opens today’s Daily Reflections, and it’s a good one to carry around all day. Here’s what I love about it. An open mind isn’t something we only need on day one. We need […]
Duration or Donation?
“The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.” That line, credited to Corrie ten Boom, opened today’s Your Daily Reprieve, and I couldn’t shake it. Most of us in recovery spend a lot of time counting. Days, months, years. Chips and coins and cakes. Counting is good! Each of those […]
Wear Out the Pencil, Not the Eraser!
“To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you’re overdoing it.” That line from Josh Jenkins showed up in today’s Keep It Simple reading, and it made me smile. Then it made me think, because a lot of us know that eraser well. Some of us in recovery are […]
My Checklist, Not Yours!
“Today the only inventory I need to take is my own. I’ll leave judgment of others to the Final Judge — Divine Providence.” That line from today’s Daily Reflections hit me right between the eyes. Because if I am honest, I can still catch myself running someone else’s inventory while my own checklist sits unfinished on […]
Take a bite out of it!
Some mornings the day looks like a whole meal you’re supposed to finish before lunch. The calls, the inbox, the list that grew overnight. You stare at it and wonder where to even start. Here’s what Sunday’s readings kept telling me: you don’t eat it all at once. You take a bite. Start at the kitchen table […]
Be a student of life…
I teach something called The Law of Probabilities, which says the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work. The more books you read, the more likely one of them will have an answer to a question that could solve the major problems of your life.. make you wealthier, solve a […]