SEPTEMBER 15 Reflection for the Day
No one welcomes pain with open arms, but it does have its uses. Just as physical pain serves as a warning that
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SEPTEMBER 14 Reflection for the Day
Until we came to the Gamblers Anonymous Program, our lives had been spent running from pain and problems. Escape by way of
SEPTEMBER 13 Reflection for the Day
We hear often in our Gamblers Anonymous meetings that pain is the touchstone of spiritual progress. We eventually realize that, just as
SEPTEMBER 12 Reflection for the Day
At certain moments, wrote Coleridge, a single almost insignificant sorrow may, by association, bring together all the little relics of pain and discomfort, bodily
SEPTEMBER 11 Reflection for the Day
One thing, more than anything else, that can relieve my occasional feeling of depression is love. I have to keep myself lovable in the
SEPTEMBER 10 Reflection for the Day
Years ago, Dr. Alfred Adler prescribed this remedy for depression to a patient: You can be healed if every day you begin the
SEPTEMBER 9 Reflection for the Day
The longer I’m in the Gamblers Anonymous Program and the longer I try to practice its principles in all my affairs, the
SEPTEMBER 8 Reflection for the Day
We are told that no situation is hopeless. At first, of course, we find this hard to believe. The opposites—hope and despair—are
SEPTEMBER 7 Reflection for the Day
If you’re not all right the way you are, it’s been said, it takes a lot of effort to get better. Realize you’re all
SEPTEMBER 6 Reflection for the Day
As practicing compulsive gamblers, we were all too familiar with depression, that pile-up of dark feelings that seemed to close over our