#daily reflection

Personal Reflection Stand beneath an old oak tree long enough and you’ll notice something remarkable. It never appears to be in a hurry. The branches don’t strain toward the sky. The roots don’t claw desperately through the earth. It simply grows—season after season, storm after storm—adding one quiet ring at a time. Nature has never confused speed with success. We do it every day. We live in…

Personal Reflection Our calendars fill quickly. Notifications pile up. To-do lists grow longer even as we cross items off. At the end of the day, we’re exhausted—and yet there’s a quiet voice that asks whether any of it truly mattered. Motion is easy to mistake for progress because both leave us tired. I’ve spent enough years solving problems to know that activity can become its own…

Today, all that is changing. Where we were powerless over our addiction, we've found a Power greater than ourselves that has helped us stop using. Where we once felt lost in life's maze, we've found guidance in the experience of our fellow recovering addicts and our ever-improving contact with our Higher Power. We need not feel trapped by our old, destructive patterns. We can live differently if we choose...

One thing I’m grateful for today is that the weather is nice and I’m here to enjoy it. I’m alive. I can walk. I can breathe. I can run if I have to. Even though at times I can be a bit nihilistic and wonder what all this is for, I know that there is a reason for everything. There has to be. Nothing in life is by chance, as much as it seems like it is, it isn’t. There is a plan and I don’t need to…