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SEPTEMBER 22nd Reflection for the Day

For a considerable period of time after I reached Gamblers Anonymous, I let things I couldn’t do keep me from doing the things I could. If I was bothered by what a speaker or other people said, I retreated, sulking, into my shell. Now, instead of being annoyed or defensive when someone strikes a raw nerve, I…[Read more]

Matthew 5 tells us how to think to increase in happiness. It begins: “Blessed are the poor in Spirit.” Am I just a tiny man, fully dependent on a huge powerful God? Yes. I can’t even breathe without Him. Life is not great unless I focus on humility, and on caring about other people. When we start to realize how great God is, and how small we are…[Read more]

SEPTEMBER 21th Reflection for the Day

I’ve heard it said that when God closes a door, He opens a window. Since I started working the Twelve Steps of Recovery, much of the fear and pain that haunted my life is gone. Some of my defects have been lifted from me, though I’m still wrestling with others. I believe that if I continue to work the Twe…[Read more]

Hi all, I am Helen, the moderator for Chinese GamTalk. Please come join me there every 1st and 3rd Wednesday from 6 to 8pm PST if you are interested and would like to chat in Chinese. I am there now and hope to connect to interested fellows. Please spread the words if you know people who may benefit from this chat.

Day 15.I was reading earlier posts and DP’s stuck out when said i was hooked from the start- So was I.Started gamb very young at 13 im now 47 and i have struggled with this addiction for to long.Lost so much $ in that time i could own 2 houses outright and be retired right now its sickening.I am attending GA mtgs.But i will say this addiction has…[Read more]

SEPTEMBER 20th Reflection for the Day

“When a man has reached a condition in which he believed that a thing must happen when he does not wish it, and that which he wishes to happen can never be, this is really the state called desperation,” wrote Schopenhauer. The very real pain of emotional difficulties is sometimes very hard to take while…[Read more]

SEPTEMBER 19th Reflection for the Day

It’s still not exactly a “piece of cake” for me to accept today’s occasional pain and anxiety with any great degree of serenity, but I’m increasingly able to be thankful for a certain amount of pain. In the Gamblers Anonymous Program, we find the willingness to do this by going over the lessons learned from…[Read more]

God told Adam and Eve: “If you eat from the fruit of “that” tree, you will certainly die. The question is… What did God mean by that? They kept breathing. What died when they ate the fruit? Their being allowed to live in paradise died. Their being allowed to live in a full blessing died (There were curses as a result of eating the fruit). But I…[Read more]

SEPTEMBER 18th Reflection for the Day

In every story we hear from others in Gamblers Anonymous, pain has been the price of admission into a new life. But our admission price purchased far more than we expected. It led us to a degree of humility, which we soon discovered to be a healer of pain. And, in time, we began to fear pain less, and desire…[Read more]

SEPTEMBER 17th Reflection for the Day

When I see new members come into Gamblers Anonymous, I am reminded first of the pain and the unmanageable mess I found myself in, and then the hope I felt once I became willing to accept the Gamblers Anonymous Program. When I see and hear the Old Timers, some with twenty years or more in GA, I am reminded…[Read more]

SEPTEMBER 16th Reflection for the Day

We learn from others in Gamblers Anonymous that the best way to deal with painful situations is to meet them head on, to deal with them honestly and realistically, and to try to learn from them and use them as springboards for growth. Through the GA Program and our contact with a Higher Power, we can find the…[Read more]

SEPTEMBER 15th Reflection for the Day

No one welcomes pain with open arms, but it does have its uses. Just as physical pain serves as a warning that we may be suffering a bodily illness, so can emotional pain be a useful sign that something is wrong – as well as a warning that we need to make a change. When we can meet pain without panic, we can…[Read more]

Ephesians 3:12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of [a]the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

When someone has ripped us to shreds, we should consider quoting this verse twice a day until we can forgive them. We all believe…[Read more]

SEPTEMBER 14th Reflection for the Day

Until we came to the Gamblers Anonymous Program, our lives had been spent running from pain and problems. Escape by way of compulsive gambling was always our temporary solution. Then we started going to meetings. We looked and listened, often with amazement. Everywhere around us, we saw failure and misery…[Read more]