Announcement
Sharings for CAL Corner
Aug 25, 2022
Dear Trusted Servants who love CAL (all of you, I hope!),
Each month, the "CAL Corner" department in The Forum features members' sharings on how a particular piece of Conference Approved Literature has enhanced their recovery. We would like to focus on the following pieces in upcoming issues, but really need sharings about them no later than September 12 in order to do so:
- Intimacy in Alcoholic Relationships (B-33)
- From Survival to Recovery (B-21)
- Lois Remembers (B-7)
- Blueprint for Progress (P-5 or P-91)
Please help by sharing 200-400 words each about how any of these individual pieces helped you, or by asking members in your Area to do so. Please see the writing guideline at:
al-anon.org/pdf/CALcornerSharingRevised%202018.pdf
You can submit your sharing online at: al-anon.org/for-members/members-resources/literature/literature-resources/send-your-sharing/
Or via mail to AFG, 1600 Corporate Landing Parkway, Virginia Beach, VA 23454-5617, Attention: "CAL Corner"
Or via email to wso@al‑anon.org with "CAL Corner" in the subject line.
Many, many thanks for your help,
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Tom Coffey
Associate Director--Literature
Just for today I will try to live through this day only, and not tackle all my problems at once. I can do something for twelve hours that would appall me if I felt I had to keep it up for a lifetime.
Just for today I will be happy. This assumes to be true what Abraham Lincoln said, that “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Just for today I will adjust myself to what is, and not try to adjust everything to my own desires. I will take my “luck” as it comes, and fit myself to it.
Just for today I will try to strengthen my mind. I will study. I will learn something useful. I will not be a mental loafer. I will read something that requires effort, thought and concentration.
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn, and not get found out; if anyone knows of it, it will not count. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do – just for exercise. I will not show anyone that my feelings are hurt; they may be hurt, but today I will not show it.
Just for today I will be agreeable. I will look as well as I can, dress becomingly, keep my voice low, be courteous, criticize not one bit. I won’t find fault with anything, nor try to improve or regulate anybody but myself.
Just for today I will have a program. I may not follow it exactly, but I will have it. I will save myself from two pests: hurry and indecision. Just for today I will have a quiet half hour all by myself and relax. During this half hour, sometime, I will try to get a better perspective of my life.
Just for today I will I will be unafraid. Especially I will not be afraid to notice what is beautiful and to believe that as I give to the world, so the world will give to me.
