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  • MARCH 12 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "I am God-dependent"

    MARCH 12 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "I am God-dependent"
    Mar 12 2026
    If we examine every disturbance we have, great or small, we'll find at the root of it some unhealthy dependency and its consequent unhealthy demand. So let us, with God's help, continually surrender these crippling liabilities. Then we can be set free to live and love. We may then be able to Twelfth Step ourselves, as well as others, into emotional well being. Do I try to carry the message of the Gamblers Anonymous Program? Today I Pray … May I first get my emotional and spiritual house in order before I seek to carry out serious commitments in human relationships. May I look long and thoroughly at "dependency" - upon the highs of gambling or upon other human beings - and recognize it as the source of my unrest. May I transfer my dependency to God, as I understand Him. Today I Will Remember … I am God-dependent. A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiH G.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC
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  • MARCH 11 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Faith in God's love"

    MARCH 11 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Faith in God's love"
    Mar 11 2026
    Since I came to Gamblers Anonymous, I've begun to recognize my previous inability to form a true partnership with another person. It seems that my egomania created two disastrous pitfalls. Either I insisted upon dominating the people I knew, or I depended on them far too much. My friends in the Program have taught me that my dependence meant demand-a demand for the possession and control of the people and the conditions surrounding me. Do I still try to find emotional security either by dominating or being dependent on others? Today I Pray ... May I turn first to God to satisfy my love hunger, knowing that all God asks from me is my faith. May I no longer cast emotional nets over those I love, either by dominating them or being excessively dependent upon them-which is just another form of domination. May I give others the room they need to be themselves. May God show me the way to mature human relationships. Today I Will Remember ... To have faith in God's love. A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiH G.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC
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  • MARCH 10 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Truth within lets God in"

    MARCH 10 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Truth within lets God in"
    Mar 10 2026
    "We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we know a truth that is outside us... We make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it," wrote Thomas Merton in No Man Is An Island. Since much of my recovery is based on spiritual progress, it is essential that I start by creating within me a small area of absolute truth and love where God can become rooted. As I expand that area of truth and love, God will grow within me. When I came to Gamblers Anonymous, my spiritual life was at an all time low. At least for today, will I not allow my compulsions to come between me and my inner truth? Today I Pray … May I recognize the difference between my feeling today of God within me and the emptiness that existed when I was gambling. Help me understand that only by continuously seeking and facing the truths about myself will my spiritual recovery progress. Today I Will Remember … Truth within lets God come in. A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiH G.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC
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  • MARCH 9 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Value the life of the spirit"

    MARCH 9 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Value the life of the spirit"
    Mar 9 2026
    We learn in Gamblers Anonymous that, as we grow spiritually, we find that our old attitudes toward our instinctual drives need to undergo drastic revisions. Our demands for emotional security and wealth, for personal prestige and power, all have to be tempered and redirected. We learn that the full satisfaction of these demands cannot be the sole end and aim of our lives. But when we're willing to place spiritual growth first then, and only then, do we have a real chance to grow in healthy awareness and mature love. Am I willing to put spiritual growth first? Today I Pray … May my development as a spiritual person temper my habitual hankerings for material security. May I understand that the only real security in life is spiritual. If I have faith in my Higher Power, these revisions in my attitudes will follow. May I grow first in spiritual awareness. Today I Will Remember … Value the life of the spirit. A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiH G.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC
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  • MARCH 8 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Feelings come out 'sideways'"

    MARCH 8 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Feelings come out 'sideways'"
    Mar 8 2026
    Merely changing my behavior, and what I say and do, doesn't prove there's been a change in my actual inner attitude. I'm deceiving myself if I believe I can somehow completely disguise my true feelings. They'll somehow come through, prolonging the difficulties in my relationships with others. I have to avoid half-measures in getting rid of the troublesome emotions I've been trying to hide. Have I taken an honest inventory of myself? Today I Pray … May I know that feelings will come out somehow-sometimes barely disguised as behavior that I cannot always understand. But that perhaps is more acceptable to me than the root emotion that caused it. May I be completely and vigilantly honest with myself. May I be given the insight that comes through depending upon a Higher Power. Today I Will Remember … Feelings can come out "sideways." A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiH G.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC
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  • A NEW BEGINNING STEP 3 "Decision"

    A NEW BEGINNING STEP 3 "Decision"
    Mar 7 2026
    STEP 3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of this Power of our own understanding. We are powerless over gambling - our lives became completely unmanageable, then in Step Two we found that help was available. Ask yourself if you want help and you will realize that you certainly need help or you would not have come to Gamblers Anonymous. If you are going to arrest this ill ness, you need all the help you can get, so keep an open mind and get going on Step Three. What must be done? At the beginning just make the decision so that later you can turn your will and your life over to your higher power; this willingness is the action asked for in Step Three. At this point you may protest that "I don't believe in God and therefore, this step cannot be worked." It can be worked if you realize that Gamblers Anonymous is a spiritual, not a religious Fellowship. With an open mind, start to realize that you are no longer a loner; indeed, through Gamblers Anonymous we are bound together. We are truly part of one another. This spiritual binding cannot be explained so it seems a Higher Power is at work. When gambling ceases, a door closes on the past horrors which you have survived. A visit to the past so you won't forget to dwell there brings remorse and self-pity, two deadly pitfalls for compulsive gamblers. As the door to the past life closes, the door to a new life opens. There was no faith or hope and now there is. You can see the Gamblers Anonymous program working. Then you progress to the recovery program and eventually to Step Three. As you develop through the program, things happen which seem to be coincidence, but are they? A hopeless case stops gambling, a member out of work a long time gets a job and even the ultimate happens an insane mem ber gets back his sanity. Coincidences! You do good things and good things happen Coping with cach day's happiness and unhappiness is becoming slowly and surely a way of life. You must not gamble today and you will become better than you have ever been. Progress may be slow but you are grateful in learning what spirituality really is. Love of money is a major problem when most people come to the Program. Then money falls into its proper place. It is nothing more than an aid toward a beautiful way of life; no longer is money an end unto itself. No longer are material objects the only aim and ambition. One can't buy health, humility, self-worth, self-esteem, happi ness and all the other fundamentals of a serene and contented way of life. These rewards must be earned. A Higher Power and you walking side by side can work together each day so that you can become better than you have ever been. Accept this as the fruits of a master plan. Learn anonymity and other healthy parts of a sound spiritual life. By asking your Higher Power to help you get through the day without making a bet, you will get the help you area seeking. That is the essence of Step Three. How? Honesty, open-mindedness and willingness. This old formula will work for you as it has for so many others. No longer will you be lonely. No longer do you make the decisions. Life has a balance which it has lacked. In a crowd or by yourself, you are no longer alone.
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  • MARCH 7 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Spend a quiet moment with God"

    MARCH 7 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Spend a quiet moment with God"
    Mar 7 2026
    It's time for me to realize that my attitude - toward the life I'm living and the people in it - can have a tangible, measurable, and profound effect on what happens to me day by day. If I expect good, then good will surely come to me. And if I try each day to base my attitude and point of view on a sound spiritual foundation, I know it will change all the circumstances of my life for the better, too. Do I accept the fact that I have been given only a daily reprieve that is contingent on the maintenance of my spiritual condition? Today I Pray … Since my illness was spiritual as well as emotional-may I mend spiritually through daily contact with God. May I find a corner of quiet within me where I can spend a few moments with God. May God's will be known to me. Today I Will Remember … To spend a quiet moment with God. A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiH G.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC
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  • MARCH 6 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Match the act"

    MARCH 6 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY "Match the act"
    Mar 6 2026
    There is no advantage, no profit, and certainly no growth when I deceive myself merely to escape the consequences of my own mistakes. When I realize this, I know I'll be making progress. "We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us," wrote Thomas Merton in No Man Is an Island. "But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it." Am I true to myself? Today I Pray May … I count on my Higher Power to help me carry out the truth as I see it. May I never duck a consequence again. Consequence-ducking became a parlor game for addictive gamblers like me, until we lost all sense of relationship between action and outcome. Now that I am healing, please God, restore my balance. Today I Will Remember … Match the act with the consequence. A Day at a Time https://amzn.to/3EOjuiH G.A. A New Beginning https://amzn.to/3E9YgPC
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