August 12
Start with joy
It’s great to have joyful memories. Yet as good as those memories may be, you don’t have to lock away your joy in the past.
Sometimes the memories are not so joyful. Yet that doesn’t prevent you from choosing joy on this day, on any day.
Joy does not require any specific condition. In fact, joy is what creates fondly remembered circumstances.
If you seek a joyful situation, start with joy. Keep giving and feeling joy, and the situation will unfold accordingly.
Stop trying to manufacture joy by arranging external conditions. Just let your joy flow out from the inside.
Start with joy, and live with joy. Add joy to each day, no matter what.
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Ralph S. Marston
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"No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy
AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt
We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time!
God says that each of us is worth loving.
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