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A Day at a Time Reflections

A Day at a Time Reflections

By: James H
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 Reflections from the Gamblers Anonymous little blue book, A Day at a Time, published by Hazelden Information and Education Services www.hazelden.org Available on Amazon - A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiH G.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPCJames H Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
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  • MAY 20 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "God can teach me"

    MAY 20 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "God can teach me"
    May 20 2025
    Compulsive gambling is a lonely dis ease; although it may have seemed that we were part of the lights-and-action crowd, we were often tortured by lone liness. Even before the end of our gam bling days before the debts and the guilt showed us how unmanageable our lives had become-nearly all of us felt that we didn't quite belong. Either we were basically shy, or we were noisy good fellows craving attention and approval, but rarely getting it. Though we sought through the seeming sociability of gambling to overcome our loneliness, reckless risk was always lonely. Finally, even the Game itself betrayed us; we were struck down and left in terrified isolation. Have I begun to achieve an inner calm? Today I Pray … May I know the tenderness of an intimate relationship with God and the calm I feel when I touch God's spirit. May I translate this tenderness and calm to my relationships with others. May God deliver me from my lifelong feeling of loneliness and show me how to be a friend. Today I Will Remember … God can teach me to be a friend. A Day at a Time ⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3EOjuiH⁠⁠⁠ G.A. A New Beginning ⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC⁠⁠
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    2 mins
  • MAY 19 REFLECTION OF THE DAY "Make room"

    MAY 19 REFLECTION OF THE DAY "Make room"
    May 19 2025
    "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us," wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes. I was never able to look at what was within me until I came to Gamblers Anonymous and heard my story told. Then I no longer had my "uniqueness" to hide behind. What was more, the person seemed a lot happier telling it than I was hearing it. I was jealous of a winner - always had been - so I began, ever so slowly, to tell my own story. Am I surprised today that all that was within me could possibly have been kept secret so long from the outside world? Today I Pray … Regardless of what lies ahead or behind me, may I remember that I must have God within me to guide me through difficult situations. When I am not in a difficult sit uation, may I thank God-and know that He is the reason I am where I am today. Today I Will Remember … To make room for God within me. A Day at a Time ⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3EOjuiH⁠⁠⁠ G.A. A New Beginning ⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC⁠⁠
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    1 min
  • MAY 18 REFLECTION OF THE DAY "Becoming whole"

    MAY 18 REFLECTION OF THE DAY "Becoming whole"
    May 18 2025
    I considered myself a "loner" in the days when I was gambling. Although I was often with other people - saw them, heard them, touched them - most of my important dialogues were with my inner self. I was certain that nobody else would ever understand. Considering my former opinion of myself, it's likely that I didn't want anybody to understand. I smiled through gritted teeth even as I was dying on the inside. Have my insides begun to match my outside since I've been in the Gamblers Anonymous Program? Today I Pray … May my physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual selves become one, a whole person again. I thank my Higher Power for showing me how to match my outside to my inside, to laugh when I feel like laughing, to cry when I feel sad, to recognize my own anger or fear or guilt. I pray for wholeness. Today I Will Remember … I am becoming whole. A Day at a Time ⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3EOjuiH⁠⁠⁠ G.A. A New Beginning ⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC⁠⁠
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    1 min

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