SEPTEMBER 30 Reflection for the Day
No matter what other people do or don’t do, for ourselves we have to remain abstinent from gambling. When our program of
No matter what other people do or don’t do, for ourselves we have to remain abstinent from gambling. When our program of
In our first weeks or months in Gamblers Anonymous, our shaky emotional condition sometimes affects our feelings toward old friends and family.
Now that we’re free from our compulsion to gamble, and living life one day at a time, we can begin to stop
In times past, even as adults, many of us childishly insisted that people protect, defend, and care for us. We acted as
Is freedom from compulsive gambling all that we’re to expect from a spiritual awakening? Not at all. Freedom from our addiction is
At the suggestion of a long-timer in Gamblers Anonymous, I began taking recovery inventories periodically. The results showed me—clearly and unmistakably—that the promises of
Everybody wants to be somebody, nobody wants to grow, wrote Goethe. I ask myself sometimes, as we all do: Who am I? Where
On studying the Twelve Steps of Recovery, many of us as newcomers to Gamblers Anonymous exclaimed, What an order! I can’t go through
For a considerable period of time after I reached Gamblers Anonymous, I let things I couldn’t do keep me from doing the
I’ve heard it said that when God closes a door, He opens a window. Since I started working the Twelve Steps of