Lexington NC Sobriety Group

06/15/2026

Happy Sober Monday, Sunshine! The week lies ahead, but AA helps us tackle one day at a time! Have a wonderful day!

06/15/2026

Daily Reflections
Monday, June 15

MAKING A.A. YOUR HIGHER POWER

". . .You can . . . make A.A. itself your 'higher power.' Here's a very large group of people who have solved their alcohol problem. . . . many members . . . have crossed the threshold just this way. . . . their faith broadened and deepened. . . . transformed, they came to believe in a Higher Power. . . ."
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 27-28

No one was greater than I, at least in my eyes, when I was drinking. Nevertheless, I couldn't smile at myself in the mirror, so I came to A.A. where, with others, I heard talk of a Higher Power. I couldn't accept the concept of a Higher Power because I believed God was cruel and unloving. In desperation I chose a table, a tree, then my A.A. group, as my Higher Power. Time passed, my life improved, and I began to wonder about this Higher Power. Gradually, with patience, humility and a lot of questions, I came to believe in God. Now my relationship with my Higher Power gives me the strength to live a happy, sober life.

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06/15/2026

Twenty Four Hours a Day
Monday, June 15

Thought for the Day
In A.A. we have three things: fellowship, faith, and service. Fellowship is wonderful, but its wonder lasts just so long. Then some gossip, disillusionment, and boredom may come in. Worry and fear come back at times and we find that fellowship is not the whole story. Then we need faith. When we're alone, with nobody to pat us on the back, we must turn to God for help. Can I say "Thy will be done" - and mean it?

Meditation for the Day
There is beauty in a God-guided life. There is wonder in the feeling of being led by God. Try to realize God's bounty and goodness more and more. God is planning for you. Wonderful are His ways -- they are beyond your knowledge. But God's leading will enter your consciousness more and more and bring you ever more peace and joy. Your life is being planned and blessed by God. You may count all material things as losses if they prevent your winning your way to the consciousness of God's guidance.

Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may earn the rewards of God's power and peace. I pray that I may develop the feeling of being led by God.

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06/15/2026

She Recovers Every Day
Monday, June 15

Coming to Believe

I read Shakti Gawain's book Creative Visualization very soon after it came out in 1978. Although I was deep in my addiction to drugs and chaos at the time, a part of me—which I understand now to be the truest part of me—connected to Gawain's teaching that we can use affirmations and mental imagery to guide us toward positive change. A decade or so later, I returned to the practice of creative visualization as part of my early recovery journey. I came to believe, and still do, that painting a picture of something in my head, imagining it, and pretending it is real helps give me the confidence to move firmly in its direction. Just thinking or visualizing doesn't make it happen, but coming to believe that it can be mine, whatever it is, supports and motivates me to move forward and into action. That's how visualization works for me. Does visualization work for you? Try to visualize one of your goals right now.

Visualizing something helps me believe that it can be mine and gives me the impetus I need to move toward it.

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06/15/2026

Touchstones
Monday, June 15

A father is a thousand schoolmasters.
Louis Nizer

We carry our fathers within us in ways we may not notice. When we do notice this in our thoughts and actions, we can use this relationship as a source of strength. When we hear a critical mental message saying we didn't perform well enough, is it a father's voice? When we feel a sense of strength and peace, are we in touch with our childhood knowledge of fatherly love? When we doubt our ability to get along with any woman, are we relying on what we learned in our childhood homes?

Perhaps we can recast our father-son relationship in adult terms. Were our fathers too removed from our lives for us to know them? Maybe we can see now that a father's love was there but was overshadowed by the demands of survival or by a misguided life. If we are forever seeking our father's approval, we may need to find the ways in which they are truly human and imperfect like us. Making peace with them - whether face to face or in the memory of a relationship - empowers us with their strengths and grants us the adulthood we deserve.

I will make peace with my father in my mind, and his strength and that of his father will be a well-spring, in my life.

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06/14/2026

Happy Sober Sunday, Sunshine! May you enjoy another opportunity to practice the AA principles, find serenity, and help another!

06/14/2026

Daily Reflections
Sunday, June 14

WHEN THE GOING GETS ROUGH

It is a design for living that works in rough going.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 15

When I came to A.A., I realized that A.A. worked wonderfully to help keep me sober. But could it work on real life problems, not concerned with drinking? I had my doubts. After being sober for more than two years I got my answer. I lost my job, developed physical problems, my diabetic father lost a leg, and someone I loved left me for another — and all of this happened during a two-week period. Reality crashed in, yet A.A. was there to support, comfort, and strengthen me. The principles I had learned during my early days of sobriety became a mainstay of my life, for not only did I come through, but I never stopped being able to help newcomers. A.A. taught me not to be overwhelmed, but rather to accept and understand my life as it unfolded.

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06/14/2026

Twenty Four Hours a Day
Sunday, June 14

Thought for the Day
In A.A. we have to learn that drink is our greatest enemy. Although we used to think that liquor was our friend, the time came when it turned against us and became our enemy. We don't know just when this happened, but we know that it did because we began to get into trouble - jails and hospitals. We realize now that liquor is our enemy. Is it still my main business to keep sober?

Meditation for the Day
It is not your circumstances that need altering so much as yourself. After you have changed, conditions will naturally change. Spare no effort to become all that God would have you become. Follow every good leading of your conscience. Take each day with no backward look. Face the day's problems with God, and seek God's help and guidance as to what you should do in every situation that may arise. Never look back. Never leave until tomorrow the thing that you are guided to do today.

Prayer for the Day
I pray that God will help me to become all that He would have me be. I pray that I may face today's problems with good grace.

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06/14/2026

She Recovers Every Day
Sunday, June 14

Navigating Uncertainty

Sometimes life needs to be lived minute by minute, second by second. Sometimes things are uncertain, and uncertainty is one of my triggers. I can't tolerate it. Instead, I trend toward excessive worry. The ambiguity feels intolerable. It's hard to take up space in the waiting. My anxiety kicks in when things are unknown, and I fall into old behaviors like overworking to try to regulate. It's not a helpful approach.

When I'm feeling unmoored in uncertainty, I need to ask myself, Am I craving clarity, or do I crave control? There's so much we cannot know. So much we'll never know. Knowing this makes it easier to come to the next stage of coping with uncertainty: acceptance. I accept that I can't control everything. I can't always have clarity. I can't always have certainty. I can accept all of this because I trust myself. I will make good decisions in my recovery, whatever the circumstances. Living through a pandemic was a good exercise in navigating uncertainty for all of us. But navigating uncertainty is never easy for a control freak.

Today, I try to flow with uncertainty rather than try to outsmart it.

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