Today's Thought - April

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April 27

H.A.L.T.

H.A.L.T. = Don’t get too hungry or too angry or too lonely or too tired.

~Anonymous

The fellowship has seen many men and women recover from very low and terrible bottoms. When the Steps are carefully worked, miracles can be expected. The lessons aren’t hard to understand. The signposts to a relapse are well marked. We can learn a lot from people who have fallen away from the program.

Don’t get too hungry. When we are weak physically, it affects our spiritual life. When hungry, eat. We need to stay away from anger altogether. Anger is the breeder of resentments. We have been eaten alive by our grudges. Cool off. Loneliness makes us an easy mark for the many voices that tempt us away from our program. When we feel loneliness coming on, we go to a meeting or use the phone. When we become tired, it is easy for us to remember the substance-induced pick-me-ups we relied on. When we’re tired, we need to rest.

Let me remember to eat the right foods, stay calm, use the fellowship, and rest.

Today's reading is from the book Easy Does It: A Book of Daily Twelve Step Meditations*