February 8 in The Little Blue Book ONE DAY at a TIME in AL-ANON
 

February 8 in The Little Blue Book ONE DAY at a TIME in AL-ANON:

When we first come into Al-Anon, we are astonished at the number of cheerful, smiling people we see in the group. We think it isn’t possible that they’re having such problems as ours – only to discover that many of them are much worse off than we are.

After a time, after a succession of meetings, we begin to discover what has given them such an optimistic outlook, for we begin to share in the secret – and use it in our own daily lives.

TODAY’S REMINDER

What the Al-Anon program has done for others, it can do for me – if I listen and absorb what I hear and use it every day. I do not go merely for the relief of airing my own problems, but to learn from others how to deal with them.

“I pray to be led into a new way of thinking about the difficulties I have to face. A new point of view will put them into perspective and reduce them to manageable size. I pray especially to resist exaggerating my troubles until they overwhelm me.”