Episodes

  • DECEMBER 30 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Grateful to be alive and recovering"

    DECEMBER 30 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Grateful to be alive and recovering"
    Dec 30 2025
    My life before coming to Gamblers Anonymous was not unlike the lives of so many of us who were cruelly buffeted and tormented by the power of our addiction. For years, I had been sick and tired. When I became sick and tired of being sick and tired, I finally surrendered and came to the Gamblers Anonymous Program. Now I realize that I had been helped all along by a Higher Power; it was this Power, indeed, that allowed me to live so that I could eventually find a new way of life.Have I found in the GA Program a measure of serenity previously unknown to me?Today I Pray … May I realize that my Higher Power has not suddenly come into my life like a stranger opening a door when I knocked. The Power has been there all along, if I will just remember how many brushes with disaster I have survived by a fraction of time or distance. Now that I have come to know my Higher Power better, I realize that I must have been saved for something - perhaps for helping others like me.Today I Will Remember … I am grateful to be alive and recovering.A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiHG.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC
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    2 mins
  • DECEMBER 29 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Helping helps me"

    DECEMBER 29 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Helping helps me"
    Dec 29 2025
    The success of the Gamblers Anonymous Program, I've been taught, lies in large measure in the readiness and willingness of its members to go to any lengths to help others tyrannized by their gambling addiction. If my readiness and willingness cools, then I stand in danger of losing all that I've gained. I must never become unwilling to give away what I have, for only by so doing will I be privileged to keep it.Do I take the Twelfth Step seriously? What Twelve Step message have I carried today either through direct help or by example?Today I Pray … May I never be too busy to answer a fellow compulsive gambler's call for help. May I never become so wound up in my pursuits that I forget that my own continuing recovery depends on that helping - a half-hour or so on the telephone, a call in person, a lunch date, whatever the situation calls for. May I know what my priorities must be.Today I Will Remember … Helping helps me.A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiHG.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC
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    2 mins
  • DECEMBER 28 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Timetables are human inventions"

    DECEMBER 28 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Timetables are human inventions"
    Dec 28 2025
    The Gamblers Anonymous Program, for me, is not only a safe place and a philosophy, but a highway to freedom. The highway leads me toward my spiritual goal of becoming the person I want to be as the result of these Steps. Sometimes the highway doesn't get me to the goal as quickly as I might wish, but I try to remember that God and I work from different timetables. But the goal is there, and I know that the Twelve Steps of Recovery will help me reach it.Have I come to realize that I - and anyone else - can now do what I had always thought impossible?Today I Pray … As I live the GA Program, may I realize more and more that it is a means to an end rather than an end in itself. May I keep in mind that the kind of spirituality it calls for is never complete, but is the essence of change and growth, a drawing nearer to an ideal state. May I be wary of setting time-oriented goals for myself to measure my spiritual progress.Today I Will Remember … Timetables are human inventions.A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiHG.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC
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    2 mins
  • DECEMBER 27 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Two words: stopping and starting"

    DECEMBER 27 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Two words: stopping and starting"
    Dec 27 2025
    Two words that I became very aware of even during my gambling days are words that I need to take into my recovery: stopping and starting. I must stop gambling and start recovering. I must start looking within, and stop blaming others. I must start tuning in to the will of my Higher Power and stop allowing myself to be guided by self-will. The more I start to see positive results from the Gamblers Anonymous Program, the more honestly I can look at the negative past actions that led me to misery and despair.Has recovery given me a mirror to see myself in others?Today I Pray … May I remember that I could choose to stop my destructive gambling any time, but unless I have started the recovery process through the GA Program and the Twelve Steps, I cannot remain "stopped." If I keep recovery started, I can keep my gambling stopped.Today I Will Remember … The life-altering significance of those two words: stopping and starting.A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiHG.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC
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    2 mins
  • DECEMBER 26 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "I will never outgrow my need for God"

    DECEMBER 26 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "I will never outgrow my need for God"
    Dec 26 2025
    None of us can really claim to understand our Higher Power to any extent. But this I do know: there is a power beyond my human will that can do wonderful, loving things for me that I can't do for myself. I see this glorious power at work in my own being, and I see the miraculous results of this same power in the lives of thousands of other recovering compulsive gamblers who are my friends in the Gamblers Anonymous Program.Do I need the grace of God and the loving understanding any less now than when I began my recovery?Today I Pray … May I never forget that my spiritual needs are as great today as they were when I came into Gamblers Anonymous. It is so easy to look at others, newer to the recovery process, and regard them as the needy ones. As I think of myself as increasingly independent, may I never overlook my dependence on my Higher Power.Today I Will Remember … I will never outgrow my need for God.A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiHG.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC
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    2 mins
  • 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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  • 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