Today, God, help me to know that it is okay to allow myself to be human. Help me not to feel guilty or punish myself when I need to "fall apart.

I've learned I can take care of myself, and what I can't do, God will do for me. —Al-Anon member

On our worst days, we still look for something we've done toward recovery. Sometimes the best we can do is feel good about what we did not do.

Real power comes from feeling our feelings, not from ignoring them. Real strength comes, not from pretending to be strong all the time, but from acknowledging our weaknesses and vulnerabilities.

Who we are right now is okay.

When we have done our best, we also have to learn that we still need to rely on God. Our best — no matter how good — is incomplete if we leave God out of the picture.

How important it was to learn your own strengths and weaknesses from your mistakes.

Even if the steering wheel fits, you don't have to keep gripping it.

if God teaches us victory in Christ Jesus day by day, we live in the constant awareness of His greatness and His sufficiency. Hard lessons are often long-lasting lessons. Never forget that God is far more interested in our getting to know the Deliverer than simply being delivered.

Nothing on earth compares to the strength God is willing to interject into lives caught in the act of believing.

When we're most exhausted, we're expending more energy fighting the enemy than we are seeking God's presence. More than you seek to win, seek Christ! More than you seek to defeat the enemy, seek his foe! More than you seek victory, seek the Victor!

We have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power may be from God and not from us. 2 Corinthians 4:7