Yes!!! such a simple reminder To help to focus and Remember The day at hand
Just for today I''ll be Good to me ...
Tomorrow A new Today the same And repeated lest i forget...
Very important !!!

thankks !! for the reminder,
Billy

Hang in there T! We're here for ya! Those "little reminders" are everywhere, you just have to notice them. :)

So what one 'just for today' thing did you pick then?

Ands here I thought you were going to say an un-opened condom from 1972.

Anyhow, I even reach for the moment-sometimes the day seems way too much for me! But this moment, I can handle.

now go search your wallet again-I think there is an old un-opened condom from when you were 16 years old and had high hopes ;)

Hey KK-last night I spilled my glass of water on my bedside table and it dripped into the top drawer. When I cleaned it out, I found 2 unopened condoms that expired in 2007! lol! hahahaha!!!!

Hope that at least made ya chuckle a bit Rivalino. :)

I need to relate to all of them m8 but particularly the first paregraph
Just for today i will try to live through this day only etc
KK that made me laugh You dont know how difficult it was to get condoms in 1972.for a 16 year old
it was a lot easier to get a drink or maybe my desires were a little mixed up!

hc I'm chuckling and i'm feeling a lot better big thanks for responding this morning hope uve had a good day and enjoy friday evening
Its past the midnight hour for me so I'd better get some beauty sleep;)

KK, you make me laugh.... I like the idea of staying in the day. Too often I was living in yesterday or projecting into tomorrow. My days are so much better now that I appreciate the smallest of things, small mercies, I guess. Good for you to keep it in your wallet and even better that you found it.

It was over 100 degrees and was so tired then I found a card on the ground just happened to be the lords prayer, so I picked it up and put it in my wallet. See it got me thinking a different way instead of thinking damn it's hotter then hell out here. I have times of struggle then times of great peace, it's all good, it's just a journey and we just stay on that journey and move forward. Doors open if we keep our eyes open, hell I can be bitter just by having this liver disease I have, but I have lived a pretty wild life, I travelled in the navy and went awol in Australia the place of my dreams when growing up and I had so much fun there and a couple of ladies that really showed me how to have fun. it was awesome. I would love to visit again in sobriety someday, I love australia, it's a totally different world over there.

Here is what he found..

"Just for today" Card
Posted on 06/04/10, 07:24 am
Just learned about the "just for today" card which some AA members carry and thought it was pretty neat. This is the text on it:

Just for today I will try to live through this day only, and not tackle my whole life problem at once.

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 wiil 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 anybody 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, talk low, act courteously, criticize not one bit, not find fault with anything, and not try to improve or regulate anybody but myself.

Just for today I will have a programme. 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 be unafraid. Especially I will not be afraid to enjoy what is beautiful, and to believe that as I give to the world, so the world will give to me.

Good stuff, R as you know we all have days like this the good thing is if we don't pick up that 1st drink as the saying goes " this to shall pass"

KK, thanks for your humor LMAO

It's in our starter pack in Australia too and it never gets old. It's one of those perspective shifting things in AA and athough the sentences are all reflective of AA, I think they are said in a slightly different way to break through our perceptual barriers and approach the day, the hour, the minute in a different way. Like I heard from this woman when I was in early recovery, when she asked her sponsor in LA, what do I need to change to get sober and stay sober? And the sponsor replied EVERYTHING.

The author of " Just for Today" is pope Johannes XXIII who died in 1963.