One Day at a Time in Al-Anon:
Al-Anon gives me a priceless opportunity to do something for others. But let me not overlook the fact that helping someone else gives me more than I give. I have the satisfaction of lightening another’s burdens. I can clear up misconceptions about the program that will help my friend make greater strides in setting her life in order. This in itself would be ample reward for me. But I also have the self-helping experience of clarifying my thoughts and seeing my own problems in a new light.
Today’s Reminder:
No one in our fellowship is under obligation to anyone else. Let me not adorn myself with a halo for a good deed, for in doing it I have done more for myself than for the person I tried to help. The more light we generate for others, the better we can see ourselves.
Even a word spoken or written in a far-off land may reach me and throw new light on a perplexity of my own.
“How far that little candle throws his beams. So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
— Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice