Switching from one compulsion
to another is like switching seats on theTitanic.

Only God can turn a mess into a message.

We aren't bad people trying to get good.
We're sick people trying to get well.

The disease is progressive.
So is recovery.

You don't have a problem.
You have a solution you don't like.

If you want what the winners have, do what the winners do.

If you feel like taking something to feel better,
take one of the Steps.

I was living in the pollution instead of the solution.

It was one of those meetings where they carry
the mess instead of the message.

I traded a lot of pain, fear, and despair
for my seat in ACA/Al-Anon.

If you're not doing enough for ACA/Al-Anon,
you're not doing enough for yourself.

My life is none of my business.
I just show up every morning and report for duty.

If you're working your own program properly,
you won't have time to work someone else's!!

My relationship isn't my problem and it isn't my solution.

I'd better be careful when I say I'm grateful.
Gratitude can Only be expressed in deeds, not words.

If you want to see how grateful someone is, ask them to help you.
Some folks think God sets up the chairs and cleans up after the meeting.

We get a *daily* reprieve, based on what we
do *today* for our recovery.

We earn today's serenity today.
We can't stay serene on meetings we attended last year,
12th Step calls we did last year,
Steps we worked last year.
We cannot keep what we have based on what we
gave away last year.

There's no problem that cannot become a crisis and no crisis that cannot
become a disaster -- if I use my addiction/compulsion to try to escape it.

I was sick and tired of the high cost of low living.

Once I admit that I cannot manage my own life (Step One),
I relinquish the right to try to manage someone else's.

A smooth sea never made a good sailor.

God loves me where I'm at, but "he" loves me too much to leave me there.

ACA/Al-Anon meetings are an archipelago of sanity in a lunatic sea.

I've been driven to a good attitude by being hit over the head by self-will.

You can complain about the same problem three times.
Then you'd better be in the solution.
If you have to talk to more than three people
about the same problem, you don't want help, you want attention.

If you're too busy to go to ACA/Al-Anon meetings,
you're busier than God wants you to be.

I get lots of messages from God, but most are in my own handwriting.

The reason I don't say "no"
when asked to do something for ACA/Al-Anon is
that invariably I'm being asked to do something that might save my life.
If I say"no" often enough, they'll stop asking.

He gave his almost.

I came to ACA/Al-Anon not only to start living, but to quit dying.

Gratitude is the hinge upon which an serene life swings.

If I'm truly grateful for today's serenity,
I'm making a down payment on tomorrow's.

I don't have relationships ~ I have Close Encounters.

Instead of praying "God be with me,"
I pray "God bear with me!"

God doesn't close one door without opening a better one.

God doesn't close one door without opening a better one ~ ~
BUT ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
we've got to get our fingers out of the closing door.
The reason you're in pain is because you have your fingers
in a door God is trying to close.

When in doubt -- don't.

I was pole vaulting over mouse turds.

If you don't want to follow time-honored guidance, you're welcome
to shop around for an opinion.

You break bad habits by breaking bad habits.
You form good habits by forming good habits.

When you smile, your brain thinks you're happy!!

We'd be surprised what people think of us
if we knew how seldom they do!!

If you're going to pray,
don't worry.
If you're going to worry,
don't pray.

PAIN: The effort required to cling
to old ideas and old behaviors.

Don't place a question mark
where God has placed a period.

There are two kinds of people in ACA/Al-Anon~ ~
those seeking the truth ~ ~
and those afraid of it

If you don't take a chance,
you don't have one.

Hatred destroys the hater.

If you like everyone in ACA/Al-Anon,
you're not going to enough meetings!!

I may not be responsible
for being an Adult Child of an Alcoholic,
but I *am* responsible for my recovery.

Stop watering the weeds!!

It's really hard for God to guide you
if you keep running out ahead of him!!

How about letting three people off the hook today?

Anger may identify a problem, but it will never solve one.

Gossip and criticism do not belittle the other person;
they belittle me.

Sometimes we don't get what we want.
Sometimes we don't get what we need.
Sometimes we get what we get.

I was always comparing my insides to someone else's outsides.

A person singing her own praises
is usually singing solo -- and out of tune.

Luck is: Living Under Correct Knowledge.

I was giving permanent reality to temporary things.

I need to stick with the winners, not with people who co-sign my bullshit.

Any day above ground is a good day.

Letting go of others will lift my own spirit high today.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

My serenity is inversely proportional to my expectations.