07/23 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
Today I'll try to settle for less than I wish were possible, and be willing to not only accept it but to appreciate it.  Today, I'll not expect too much of anyone -- especially myself.  I'll try to remember that contentment comes from gratefully accepting the good that comes to us, and not from being furious at life because it's not "better."  DO I REALIZE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RESIGNATION AND REALISTIC ACCEPTANCE?

TODAY I PRAY
May I not set my sights unrealistically high, expect too much.  May I look backwards long enough to see that my self-set, impossible goals were the trappings of my addiction; too often I ended up halfway there, confronted by my own failure.  Those "foiled-again,"  "I've-failed-again" feelings became monumental excuses to give in to my compulsion, which blanketed my miseries.  May I avoid that sick old pattern.  May I be realistic.

TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Good is good enough.

07/22 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
The Program has taught me that the essence of all growth for me is a willingness to change for the better.  Following that, I must have further willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails, and to courageously take every action that is required. 

"I am and know and will;
I am knowing and willing;
I know myself to be and to will;
I will to be and to know."
                            -Saint Augustine

IS WILLINGNESS A KEY INGREDIENT OF MY LIFE AND THE WAY I WORK THE PROGRAM?

TODAY I PRAY
I pray for willingness to do what I can, willingness to be what I can be -- and what is sometimes hardest -- willingness to be what I am.  I pray, too, for energies to carry out my willingness in all that I do, so that I may grow in the ways of God and practice the principles of The Program in all my affairs.

TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
"I am and know and will."

07/19 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
Many of us come to The Program professing that we're agnostic or atheistic.  As someone once put it, our will to disbelieve is so strong that we prefer a date with the undertaker to an experimental and open-minded search for a Higher Power.  Fortunately for those of us with closed minds, the constructive forces in The Program almost always overcome our obstinacy.  Before long, we discover the bountiful world of faith and trust.  It was there all along, but we lacked the willingness and open-mindedness to accept it.  DOES OBSTINACY STILL SOMETIMES BLIND ME TO THE POWER FOR GOOD THAT RESIDES IN FAITH?

TODAY I PRAY
I want to thank God for this opportunity to open my mind; to learn again about faith and trust; to realize that my wanderings did not change His place within me or His loving concern for me.  May I know that it was my own doing that I lost faith.  Thank God for another chance to believe.

TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Discard the will to disbelieve.

07/14 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
Conditioned as we are by our old ideas and old ways of living, it's understandable that we tend to resist certain suggestions made to us when we first come to The Program.  If that's the case, there's no need to PERMANENTLY reject such suggestions; it's better, we've found, just temporarily to set them aside.  The point is, there's no hard-and-fast "right" way or "wrong" way.  Each of us uses what's best for himself or herself at a particular time, keeping an open mind regarding other kinds of help we may find valuable at another time.  AM I TRYING TO REMAIN OPEN-MINDED?

TODAY I PRAY
May I be enlightened about the real meaning of an open mind, aware that my one-time definition of "open-minded" as "broad-minded" doesn't seem to fit here.  May I constantly keep my mind open to the suggestions of the solid many who came into The Program before me.  What has worked for them may work for me, no matter how far-fetched or how obvious it may be.

TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Only an open mind can be healed.