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    DECEMBER 15 Reflection for the Day
    Some people are such worriers that they feel sorry about the fact that they have nothing to worry about. Newcomers in the Gamblers Anonymous Program sometimes feel, for example, “This is much too good to last.” Most of us, however, have plenty of real things to worry about – old standbys like debts, health, death, and taxes, to name just a few. But GA tells us that the antidote to worry and fear is confidence – confidence not in ourselves, but in our Higher Power.

    Will I continue to believe that God can and will avert the calamity that I spend my days and nights dreading? Will I believe that, if calamity does strike, God will enable me to see it through?

    Today I Pray
    May I realize that the worry habit – worry that grows out of broader, often unlabeled fears – will take more than time to conquer. Like many others, I have lived with worry so long that it has become my constant, floor-pacing companion. May my Higher Power teach me that making a chum out of worry is a waste of my energy and fritters away my constructive hours.

    Today I Will Remember
    Kick the worry habit.

    December 16 Reflection for the Day
    Sometimes, on those bad days we all have from time to time, it almost seems that God doesn’t want us to be happy here on earth and, for those of us who believe in an afterlife, that He demands pain and suffering in this life as the price of happiness in the next. The Gamblers Anonymous Programme teaches me that just the opposite in the case. God wants me to be happy right here on earth – right now. If I allow it, God will even point out the way.

    Do I sometimes stubbornly refuse to look where God is pointing?

    Today I Pray
    I pray that I am not playing the perennial sufferer, dragging around in the boots of tragedy and acting as if suffering is the only ticket to heaven. May I look around, at the goodness and greenery of earth, which is testimony enough that our life here is meant to be more than just one pitfall after another. May no misconception of God as a master trapper, waiting in ever thicket to snare us. Distort my relationship with a loving, forgiving Higher Power.

    Today I Will Remember
    There is more to life than suffering.