The only way to keep it is to give it away. That's not a bumper sticker, it's the engine that makes the whole thing run. Today Mike and Corey close out April with one of the most beautiful paradoxes in recovery: the gift deepens the more you share it. Corey connects it to Tradition 5, to sponsor Doug, to his buddy Kevin who saved his life when he came back in the rooms, and in classic Corey fashion... to herpes. Mike ties it to Luke 6 and the Sermon on the Plain: generosity begets generosity. You're not the one responsible for the harvest. You just have to keep sowing.

The stone for today: Some gifts grow stronger the more they are shared. What we give away in service often deepens within us.

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Freedom without limits isn't freedom — it's just chaos with better branding. Today Mike and Corey dig into what real freedom actually looks like, and it turns out it runs straight through discipline, not around it. Corey lands on Galatians 5:13 (called to be free, but not free to indulge) and connects it directly to the sick man's prayer from page 67 of the Big Book: how can I be helpful to him? Mike ties it together with a flat tire analogy that sticks: self-help is just patching the nail hole. Spiritual transformation is replacing the whole tire. And the freedom on the other side? That's the real thing.

The stone for today: True freedom is not the absence of limits. It is the ability to live responsibly within them.

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Two quiet virtues. No drama, no fanfare — just the steady work of staying teachable and showing up. Today Corey and Mike dig into why that prayer at the end of the ripple is actually kind of terrifying: Father, teach me the humility of Christ. Pastor Mike puts it plainly — you know how far God took it with Jesus. So what does saying that out loud actually mean? And yet the reward on the other side of faithful living, as Mike lands it, is greater than anything that ever came out of a bottle or a capsule. Worth the risk.

The stone for today: A healthy life rests on two quiet virtues — humility and responsibility. Humility keeps the heart teachable. Responsibility turns good intentions into faithful actions.

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Growth isn't a destination — it's a lifelong unfolding. In this episode, Pastor Mike and Corey dig into what it really means to stay teachable, and why "just not drinking today" is a starting point, not a finish line.

Growth is a lifelong discovery. The more we walk faithfully each day, the more wisdom, clarity, and purpose unfold.

Mike opens up about coming into recovery as someone who was convinced he was too smart to need God — book smarts, no common sense, and a quiet disdain for anyone who might have something to teach him. What the school of hard knocks gave him, his education never could: genuine humility. Corey follows with a sharp observation about the difference between human experience and spiritual experience — how chasing the human stuff never moves the needle spiritually, but the spiritual, somehow, takes care of the human.

Along the way: the "laurels" question (what even is a laurel?), Matthew 7:8 and the Big Book's own echo of it on page 46, and Mike's reflection on how Jesus taught us how to pray before he promised our prayers would be answered — and what that changes about how we come before God. As Corey puts it: everybody can hear where your mouth goes. But where do your feet go afterward?

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Happiness isn't the goal. Contentment is. And those are very different things. Today Corey opens with one of his most raw and honest moments yet — from a closet with a gun to running over 12 mailboxes on purpose, to finding out years later that one of those mailboxes belonged to his boss. And rather than dread, his first reaction was opportunity: a chance to make amends face to face. That's what transformation looks like from the inside out. Mike ties it together simply — if you never face any difficulties, you never grow. The painful seasons have a direction. And that direction is forward.

The stone for today: Life is not measured by constant happiness. Growth comes through how we face difficulty, learn from it, and use what we learn to help others.

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Daily Ripples is a daily devotional reflection connecting recovery principles with the life of faith. New episodes every day at dailyripples.com.

This is not a self-help program. It's a spiritual one. And that distinction matters more than most people realize. Today Corey and Mike dig into what it actually means to admit your limits — not just intellectually, but in the gut-level, can't-white-knuckle-it-anymore way that opens the door to something new. Corey lands on one of the most liberating lines in the Big Book: our troubles are basically of our own making. Not because it's fun to hear — but because if the problem is yours, so is the way out. And the way out, it turns out, runs through God and not through yourself.

The stone for today: Real change often begins when we finally admit our limits. What once felt like defeat can become the doorway to freedom.

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We're all born with a God-sized hole in our hearts, and we spend a lot of years trying to fill it with everything but God. Today Mike and Corey dig into one of the more vulnerable topics the Daily Ripples has touched — loneliness, and the unhealthy patterns it drives. Controlling others. Depending on them too heavily. Chasing relationships to quiet the emptiness inside. Both men get honest about how that played out in their own lives, and how the path forward wasn't filling the hole differently — it was letting God take care of the soul work while they focused on taking care of others. Corey lands it simply: God takes care of me if I take care of others. Never the other way around.

The stone for today: Loneliness often drives us to unhealthy patterns. We may try to control others or depend on them too heavily, hoping they will fill the emptiness within.

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No single method solves every struggle. Not the steps alone. Not church alone. Not therapy alone. Today Mike and Corey dig into something the founder of AA himself put in writing — AA is not a cure-all, even for alcoholism. That kind of honesty takes humility. And humility, it turns out, is the whole ballgame. Mike shares how it took being broken down completely before he could even consider asking for help. Corey connects it to the gym, to ego, and to that dangerous moment around 90 days when things start to feel a little too comfortable. Pride comes before the fall — or in recovery language, before the relapse.

The stone for today: No single method solves every struggle. Growth requires humility — the willingness to receive help wherever wisdom and healing may be found.

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