Episodes

  • DECEMBER 21 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Live the principles - and pass them on"

    DECEMBER 21 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Live the principles - and pass them on"
    Dec 21 2025
    Each of us in the Gamblers Anonymous Program can, in our own time and own way, awaken our own spirituality. With this comes the deep-down knowledge that we are no longer alone and helpless, also the deep-down awareness that we've learned certain truths that we can now transmit to others, so that perhaps they, too, can be helped. Do I keep myself in constant readiness for the spiritual awareness that is certain to come to me as I practice the Steps? Today I Pray … May I be steady, not expecting that my recognized spirituality will startle me like an alarm clock into sudden awareness of a Higher Power. It may settle on me so quietly that I may not recognize precisely when my awareness comes. The clue may come in my desire to Twelfth-Step others. May I realize then that I have accepted the principles of the GA Program and have truly made the effort to practice them in all my affairs. Today I Will Remember … Live the principles - and pass them on. A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiH G.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC
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    2 mins
  • DECEMBER 20 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Break large goals into smaller ones"

    DECEMBER 20 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Break large goals into smaller ones"
    Dec 20 2025
    When we compulsively strive for perfection, we invariably injure ourselves. For one thing, we end up creating big problems from little ones. For another, we become frustrated and filled with despair when we're unable to meet the impossible goals we've set for ourselves. And finally, we decrease our capability to deal with life and reality as they are. Can I learn to yield a little here and there? Can I apply myself with a quiet mind only to what is possible and attainable? Today I Pray … May I see that striving for an impossible accomplishment provides me with an ever-ready excuse for not making it. It is also an indication of my loss of reality sense, which ought to involve knowing what I can do and then doing it. With the help of my Gamblers Anonymous group and my Higher Power, may I learn to set "reasonable goals." These may seem ridiculously small to me, after years of thinking big. But, by breaking down my projects into several smaller ones, may I find that I actually can accomplish some of my goals. Today I Will Remember … Break down large goals into smaller ones. A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiH G.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC
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    2 mins
  • DECEMBER 19 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "I am not a superperson"

    DECEMBER 19 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "I am not a superperson"
    Dec 19 2025
    The Gamblers Anonymous Program teaches me to work for progress, not perfection. That simple admonition gives me great comfort, for it represents a primary way in which my life today is so different from what it used to be. In my former life, perfection - for all its impossibility - was so often my number one goal. Today I can believe that if I sometimes fail, I'm not a failure - and if I sometimes make mistakes, I'm not a mistake. And I can apply those same beliefs to the Twelve Steps of Recovery, as well as to my entire life. Do I believe that only Step One can be practiced with perfection, and that the remaining Steps represent perfect ideals? Today I Pray … God, teach me to abandon my erstwhile goal of superhuman perfection in everything I did or said. I know now that I was actually bent on failure, because I could never attain those impossible heights I had established for myself. Now that I understand this pattern, may I no longer program my own failures. Today I Will Remember … I may strive to be a super person, but not a superperson. A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiH G.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC
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    2 mins
  • DECEMBER 18 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Be in harmony with God's will"

    DECEMBER 18 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Be in harmony with God's will"
    Dec 18 2025
    I'm learning all too slowly, at times - that when I give up the losing battle of trying to run my life in my own way, I gain abiding peace and deep serenity. For many of us, that learning process is a painfully slow one. Eventually, however, I understand that there are only two wills in the world, my will and God's. Whatever is within my direct control is my will, and whatever is beyond my direct control is God's will. So I try to accept that which is beyond my control as God's will for me.Am I beginning to realize that, by surrendering my will to the Divine Will, I am for the first time living turmoil and without anxiety?Today I Pray … May I hope that my will can be congruent with the all-encompassing will of God. I pray that I will know immediately if my will is in a useless tug of war with His Divine Will. May I trust God now to guide my will according to His Master Plan - and to make His purpose mine.Today I Will Remember … I will that my will be in harmony with God's.A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiHG.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC
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    2 mins
  • DECEMBER 17 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Feel the stillness of God"

    DECEMBER 17 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Feel the stillness of God"
    Dec 17 2025
    More and more these days, as I progress in my recovery, I seem to be quietly waiting to hear my Higher Power's unmistakable voice within me. Prayer is becoming a two-way street - of seeking and listening, of searching and finding. A favorite bit of Scripture for me is, "Be still and know that I am God." Do I pay quiet and loving attention to my Higher Power, confident that an enlightened knowledge of His will can come to me? Today I Pray … As I seek to know my Higher Power, may I learn the best ways for me to reach and hear Him. May I begin to feel prayer, not just listen to the sound of my own verbalizing. May I feel the sharp outlines of my humanness fading as His Godliness becomes a part of me. May I feel that I am one with Him. Today I will Remember … Feel the stillness of God. A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiH G.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC
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    2 mins
  • DECEMBER 16 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "More to life"

    DECEMBER 16 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "More to life"
    Dec 16 2025
    Sometimes, on those bad days we all have from time to time, it almost seems that God doesn't want us to be happy here on earth and, for those of us who believe in an afterlife, that He demands pain and suffering in this life as the price of happiness in the next. The Gamblers Anonymous Program teaches me that just the opposite is the case. God wants me to be happy right here on earth - right now. If I allow it, God will even point out the way.Do I sometimes stubbornly refuse to look where God is pointing?Today I Pray … I pray that I am not playing the perennial sufferer, dragging around in the boots of tragedy and acting as if suffering is the only ticket to heaven. May I look around, at the goodness and greenery of earth, which is testimony enough that our life here is meant to be more than just one pitfall after another. May no misconception of God as a master trapper, waiting in every thicket to snare us, distort my relationship with a loving, forgiving Higher Power.Today I Will Remember … There is more to life than suffering.A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiHG.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC
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    2 mins
  • DECEMBER 15 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Kick the worry habit"

    DECEMBER 15 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Kick the worry habit"
    Dec 15 2025
    Some people are such worriers that they feel sorry about the fact that they have nothing to worry about. Newcomers in the Gamblers Anonymous Program sometimes feel, for example, "This is much too good to last." Most of us, however, have plenty of real things to worry about - old standbys: debts, health, death, and taxes, to name just a few. But GA tells us that the antidote to worry and fear is confidence - confidence not in ourselves, but in our Higher Power.Will I continue to believe that God can and will avert the calamity that I spend my days and nights dreading? Will I believe that, if calamity does strike, God will enable me to see it through?Today I Pray … May I realize that the worry habit - worry that grows out of broader, often unlabeled fears will take more than time to conquer. Like many others, I have lived with worry so long that it has become my constant, floor-pacing companion. May my Higher Power teach me that making a chum out of worry is a waste of my energy and fritters away my constructive hours.Today I Will Remember … Kick the worry habit.A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiHG.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC
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    2 mins
  • DECEMBER 14 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Prayer is an attitude"

    DECEMBER 14 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Prayer is an attitude"
    Dec 14 2025
    Some of us in Gamblers Anonymous are inclined to make the mistake of thinking that the few moments we spend in prayer and meditation - in "talking with God" - are all that count. The truth is that the attitude we maintain throughout the entire day is just as important. If we place ourselves in God's hands in the morning, and throughout the day hold ourselves ready to accept His will as it is made known through the events of our daily life, our attitude of acceptance becomes a constant prayer. Can I try to cultivate an attitude of total acceptance each day? Today I Pray … May I maintain contact with my Higher Power all through my day, not just check in for a prayer now and then. May my communion with God never become merely a casual aside. May I come to know that every time I do something that is in accord with God's will I am living a prayer. Today I Will Remember … Prayer is an attitude. A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiH G.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC
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    2 mins