Meeting scheduled in the Al-anon chat room at 9:00AM Eastern Standard Time

Current Meeting Schedule: Group Business Meeting held in this room on The FIRST SUNDAY OF EACH MONTH immediately following 7PM meeting. ~ (Morning Meetings) Mon. - Fri. at 9am eastern time & Sat - Sun. - 10am eastern time ~ (Nite Meetings) Mon -Saturday 9PM eastern time & Sunday 7PM eastern time

Topics this morning will be: “Anxiety – Unhealthy Thought Patterns”, “Being Unreasonable – Without Knowing It”, and “Listen and Learn – The Power of Sharing”

These are only suggested topics, therefore, please feel free to share off topic if there is something weighing on your heart this morning.

Our Reading for today is from One Day At A Time In Al-Anon for December 17th:

The husband of an alcoholic from a group in France writes to the World Service Office:

“I recall our blackboard at school, the writing was often hard to read because the board had been wiped with a cloth that was loaded with chalk-dust. Then we would wipe the board with a wet sponge and the board would be clean and black so we could read clearly what was written on it.”

“Is it not the same with the anxieties that trouble me? If I wish to erase them from my mind, I must not use a cloth full of dusty thoughts, but 'pass the sponge over it' so that no trace of what was written before can jumble up the fresh inspiration – the ideas I want to see and live with.”

Today's Reminder: From every corner of the world people in Al-Anon reach out to each other with helpful thoughts. How vividly this young Paresian husband shows us the need to erase our useless anxieties from our minds and hearts.

Today's Quote: “I pray that I may start each new day with a 'clean blackboard' and write upon it only what is good for me.”

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