04/01 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
If we don't want to slip, we'll avoid slippery places.  For the alcoholic, that means avoiding old drinking haunts; for the overeater, that means bypassing a once-favorite pastry shop; for the gambler, that means shunning poker parties and race tracks.  For me, certain emotional situations can also be slippery places; so can indulgence of old ideas such as a well-nourished resentment that is allowed to build to explosive proportions.  DO I CARRY THE PRINCIPLES OF THE PROGRAM WITH ME WHEREVER I GO?

TODAY I PRAY
May I learn not to rest myself too harshly by "asking for it," by stopping in at the bar or the bakery or the track.  Such "testing" can be dangerous, especially if I am egged on, not only by a thirst or an appetite or a craving for the old addiction, but by others still caught in it whose moral responsibility has been reduced to zero.

TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Avoid slippery places.

Happy Friday Eve..

Today I am grateful..

For you..

For my REAL friends..

For courage..

For knowledge..

For wisdom..

 Not sure if this is the right forum but....I think I'd like to go to a therapist. I'm almost a year post op and this year has been so crazy, I think talking to an unbiased person wouldn't hurt. Does anyone know of anybody in NH that specializes in WLS patients?

03/31 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
My illness is unlike most other illnesses in that DENIAL that I am sick is a primary symptom that I AM sick.  Like such other incurable illnesses as diabetes and arthritis, however, my illness is characterized by relapses.  In The Program, we call such relapses "slips."  The one thing I know for certain is that I alone can cause myself to slip.  WILL I REMEMBER AT ALL TIMES THAT THE THOUGHT PRECEDES THE ACTION?  WILL I TRY TO AVOID "STINKING THINKING?"

TODAY I PRAY
May God give me the power to resist temptations.  May the responsibility for giving in, for having a "slip," be on my shoulders and mine only.  May I see BEFOREHAND if I am setting myself up for a slip by blame-shifting, shirking my responsibility to myself, becoming the world's poor puppet once again.  My return to those old attitudes can be as much of a slip as the act of losing my sobriety.

TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Nobody's slip-proof.

03/30 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
"When I meditate upon such a vision," Bill W. continued, "I need not be dismayed because I shall never attain it, nor need I swell with presumption that one of these days its virtues shall all be mine.  I only need to dwell on the vision itself, letting it grow and ever more fill my heart.... Then I get a sane and healthy idea of where I stand on the highway to humility.  I see that my journey towards God has scarcely begun.  As I thus get down to my right size and stature, my self-concern and importance become amusing."  DO I TAKE MYSELF TOO SERIOUSLY?

TODAY I PRAY
May the grandiosity which is a symptom of my chemical addiction be brought back into proportion by the simply comparison of my powerlessness with the power of God.  May I think of the meaning of Higher Power as it relates to my human frailty.  May it bring my ego back down to scale and help me shed my defenses of pomp or bluster or secret ideas of self-importance.

TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
He is great.  I am small.