Episodes

  • DECEMBER 25 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Giving and receiving are equal blessings"

    DECEMBER 25 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Giving and receiving are equal blessings"
    Dec 25 2025
    Today is a special day in more ways than one. It's a day that God has made, and I'm alive in God's world. I know that all things in my life this day are an expression of God's love - the fact that I'm alive, that I'm recovering, and that I'm able to feel the way I feel at this very instant. For me, this will be a day of gratitude.Am I deeply grateful for the dawn of this special day, and for all my blessings?Today I Pray … On this day of remembering God's gift, may I understand that giving and receiving are the same. Each is part of each. If I give, I receive the happiness of giving. If I receive, I give someone else that same happiness of giving. I pray that I may give myself my love and my strengths - generously. May I also receive graciously the love and strengths of others' selves. May God be our example.Today I Will Remember … Giving and receiving are equal blessings.A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiHG.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC
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    2 mins
  • DECEMBER 24 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Peace is the greatest blessing"

    DECEMBER 24 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Peace is the greatest blessing"
    Dec 24 2025
    We came to Gamblers Anonymous as supplicants, literally at the ends of our ropes. Sooner or later, by practicing GA's Twelve Steps of Recovery, we discover within ourselves a very precious thing. We uncover a serenity through which we can be comfortable in all places and situations. We gain strength and grow - with the help of God as we understand Him, with the Fellowship of the Gamblers Anonymous Program, and by applying the Twelve Steps of Recovery to our lives.Can anyone take my new life from me?Today I Pray … May my prayers of desperate supplication, which I brought as a newcomer to the Gamblers Anonymous Program, change to peaceful surrender. Now that I have seen what can be done through the Program and the endless might of a Higher Power, may my gift to others be that strong conviction. I pray that those I love will have the faith to find their own spiritual experiences and the blessings of peace.Today I Will Remember … Peace - inner and outer - is the greatest blessing.A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiHG.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC
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    2 mins
  • DECEMBER 23 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Perspective through practicing the principles"

    DECEMBER 23 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Perspective through practicing the principles"
    Dec 23 2025
    How can I tell if I have begun to be aware of my spirituality. Sometimes the discovery that we are spiritual beings manifests itself in simple, rather than complicated, evidences: emotional maturity; an end to constant and soul-churning resentments; the ability to love and be loved in return; the belief, even without understanding, that a Power beyond us controls the setting and rising sun, brings forth and ends life, and gives joy to human hearts.Am I now aware, as I try to practice the Gamblers Anonymous principles in all my affairs, that my perspective is wider, my view of humanity gentler, than in the self-centered misery of my gambling days?Today I Pray … May my spiritual confidence begin to spread over my attitudes toward others, especially during holiday times, when anticipations and anxieties are high. As a compulsive gambler, I have not handled the emotions of holidays well. I pray for serenity to cope with the holiday brew of emotions.Today I Will Remember … Perspective comes through practicing the principles.A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiHG.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC
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    2 mins
  • DECEMBER 22 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "GA gives us blueprints"

    DECEMBER 22 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "GA gives us blueprints"
    Dec 22 2025
    "I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." -Henry David Thoreau.We always had the power to change ourselves and our lives, but prior to coming to Gamblers Anonymous, we had little success in making progress toward any realistic goals. Now that we have found the GA Program, we not only have the ability, but we have a plan - a set of blueprints that work.Do I believe that none come too soon to the GA Program, and that none return to it too late? Do I believe that, with my Higher Power as guide and my fellow GA members cheering me on, no level of elevation seems unattainable?Today I Pray … May I not forget that, although my intentions to better myself and my life may have been real, my ability to accomplish this without a realistic plan was destined to fail. May I be grateful that I found this Program and that the miracle of GA exists in my life. May I remember honestly how it was and celebrate, with the brothers and sisters of this great Fellowship, how it is today and how it can be.Today I Will Remember … GA gives us the blueprints.A Day at a Time ⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3EOjuiH⁠⁠⁠G.A. A New Beginning ⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC⁠⁠
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    2 mins
  • 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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  • 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