Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Dec. 2, 2015 - What slut shaming says about the LGBT community
Dec. 2, 2015 - Rocco Steele, gay porn performer turned HIV educator
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| Rocco Steele: From gay porn to HIV educator |
Dec. 2, 2015 - Gay porn model Tyce Jax arrested on charge of beating boyfriend
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| Tyce Jax |
Dec. 2, 2015 - Death of 20-year-old gay porn performer Dimitri Kane ruled suicide
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| Dimitri Kane |
Dec. 2, 2015 - World AIDS Day: What's it like to be HIV+ in 2015?
Dec. 2, 2015 - Accused of sexual assault, here's what porn performer James Deen has said about consent
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| James Deen |
Dec. 2, 2015 - Readings in Recovery: Today's Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation
Wednesday Dec. 2, 2015
Today's thought from the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
He that knew all that learning ever writ
Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.
-- Aphra Behn
It's true that the more information we have about the world, the more clearly we see the shape of what we don't know. It's also true that we don't need to learn anything at all in order to deal fairly with others and to walk gently in the world.
The wisdom that we need is inside us. Before our schooling teaches us to forget it, we know instinctively how to treat others because we know how we wish others to treat us, and we know that all people are one.
This primitive knowledge mustn't be buried under the classifications and analyses we pick up along the way. We can, if we try, de-school ourselves to the point where we can listen to our spirits, trust our bodies, and revere the world for the seamless whole it is.
If I cherish my original wisdom, then learning can help me to be comfortable in my ignorance.
He that knew all that learning ever writ
Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.
-- Aphra Behn
It's true that the more information we have about the world, the more clearly we see the shape of what we don't know. It's also true that we don't need to learn anything at all in order to deal fairly with others and to walk gently in the world.
The wisdom that we need is inside us. Before our schooling teaches us to forget it, we know instinctively how to treat others because we know how we wish others to treat us, and we know that all people are one.
This primitive knowledge mustn't be buried under the classifications and analyses we pick up along the way. We can, if we try, de-school ourselves to the point where we can listen to our spirits, trust our bodies, and revere the world for the seamless whole it is.
If I cherish my original wisdom, then learning can help me to be comfortable in my ignorance.
You are reading from the book:
The Promise of a New Day by Karen Casey & Martha Vanceburg. © 1983, 1991 by Hazelden Foundation
Dec. 2, 2015 - Readings in Recovery: Step by Step
Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015
" ...Step Ten ...suggests we continue to take personal inventory and continue to set right any new mistakes as we go along. We vigorously commenced this way of living as we cleaned up the past. We have entered the world of the Spirit. Our next function is to grow in understanding and effectiveness. This is not an overnight matter. It should continue for our lifetime. Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment and fear ...We discuss them with someone immediately and make amends quickly if we have harmed anyone." - Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, 1976, Ch 6 ("Into Action"), p 84.
Today, if a slip or relapse are preceded by thoughts that are mostly subconscious, a more diligent practice of Step 10 might be a refuge from a return to drinking. The 10th Step, the maintenance of the Fourth, could alert us to problems in our physical, emotional and spiritual conditions, and those conditions may well have led us to drinking in the first place. The importance of the 10th cannot be underestimated. It compels us to continue the Fourth Step on a daily basis, and do it honestly and diligently. With that honesty and diligence, we may find in the 10th some of the defects we acknowledged in our Fourth Step. By recognizing them before they reach the surface, we might be able to fight off the potential slip or relapse. At the same time, if we make conscious those thoughts that are otherwise subconscious and cave in to temptation or craving anyway, we most likely have not fully embraced the First Step - "Admitted we were powerless ..." Today, I choose not to neglect my 10th Step. And our common journey continues. Step by step. - Chris M., 2015
Dec. 2, 2015 - Readings in Recovery: Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015
AA Thought for the Day
The thoughts that come before having a slip seem to be partly subconscious. And yet it is likely that at least part of these thoughts get into our consciousness. An idle thought connected with drinking casually pops into our mind. That is the crucial moment. Will I harbor that thought even for one minute or will I banish it from my mind at once? If I let it stay, it may develop into a daydream. I may begin to see a cool glass of beer or a Manhattan cocktail in my mind's eye. If I allow the daydream to stay in my mind, it may lead to a decision, however unconscious, to take a drink. Then I am headed for a slip.
Do I let myself daydream?
Meditation for the Day
Many of us have a sort of vision of the kind of person God wants us to be. We must be true to that vision, whatever it is, and we must try to live up to it, by living the way we believe we should live. We can all believe that God has a vision of what he wants us to be like. In all people there is the good person which God sees in us, the person we could be and that God would like us to be. But many a person fails to fulfill that promise and God's disappointments must be many.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may strive to be the kind of a person that God would have me be. I pray that I may try to fulfill God's vision of what I could be.
Hazelden Foundation
Dec. 2, 2015 - Readings in Recovery: A Day at a Time
Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015
Reflection for the Day
Once at a meeting held in a church, I saw a stained glass window on which was written, "God Is Love." For some reason, my mind transposed the words into, "Love Is God." Either way is correct and true, I realized, looking about me and becoming even more conscious of the spirit of love and Power in the small meeting room. I'll continue to seek out that love and Power, following The Program as if my life depended upon it - as indeed it does.
Does life to me today mean living - in the active sense - joyously and comfortably?
Today I Pray
May I feel the spirit of love that gives our prayers their energy. May I feel the oneness in this room, the concentration of love that gives the group its power. May I feel the exemplary love of a Higher Power, which our love echoes.
Today I Will Remember
Love is God.
Hazelden Foundation
Dec. 2, 2015 - Readings in Recovery: The Eye Opener
Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015
Fires, floods and epidemics are nobody's business - they are everybody's business. Alcoholism is equally devastating and just as much a community catastrophe.
We in AA are unique in that we are trained veterans in the art of combating this disease. Its prevalence demands the complete cooperation of every qualified man or woman, and we are guilty of dereliction of duty and lacking in gratitude to the Grace of God that saved us, if we do anything less than our utmost.
Hazelden Foundation
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Dec. 1, 2015 - Science says Facebook is ruining your life
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