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 Step by Step Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014  Today, I will work on ACCEPTANCE of the things I CAN change and those I cannot. In accepting what I can change, I need both humility and courage to make changes even if they are not what I want but know I need; I need w...

 Step by Step Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014  Today, I will remember that, as a drinking alcoholic, I was my own judge, jury and executioner. In giving my all to whiskey, I judged myself to be unworthy of anything better, of feeling anything good. I deemed myself guilty of deserving all which ...

 Step by Step Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014   Today, motivated by Einstein's wisdom that individual happiness should be pinned on goals rather than a person or thing, I will build my sobriety and recovery on the goal to attain the full grace and redemption of the Program and, in so doing, will ...

 Step by Step Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014  Today, I understand - perhaps for the first time - that dependency is not confined to alcohol and the dynamics of addiction to it, and that dependency CAN impact my relationships with other people. For years, I depended on alcohol to drown f...

 Step by Step Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014  Today, I begin to tear down the wall that BITTERNESS has built between me and the promises of the Program and recovery - serenity with the world and myself, inclusion instead of exclusion from others in recovery who have found what I have ...

 Step by Step Friday, Jan. 31, 2014  Today, I will live just for today. I cannot nor do I want to forget yesterday for it has lessons to carry into tomorrow; nor do I want to be so preoccupied with tomorrow that I neglect today for I may miss some unintended good that someone ...

 Step by Step Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014  Today, I will work for progress instead of perfection. And, in recognizing the difference, I might learn patience over impatience not only with others, but with myself. Progress requires that I focus on just this day while perfection forces me to l...

 Step by Step Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014  Today, I will harness the gifts of the Program - courage, strength, hope, wisdom of my Higher Power, compassion, passion - and work them for another person's whose needs are far more urgent and desperate than mine. I will not accept that other per...

 Step by Step Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014  Today, at day's end, I will look back on this day and know by the grace of God that I did the best I could in all my affairs. If, in prayer and meditation, I find that I have not fully surrendered to my Higher Power some problem…

 Step by Step Monday, Jan. 27, 2014 Today, I treat with respect that the Program's credo "Let Go and Let God" does not absolve me from responsibility for my condition as an alcoholic and from active participation in my redemption from the damage and pain to others of my drinking da...