Topics – Oct 3
1) Daily Reflections
SERENITY AFTER THE STORM
Someone who knew what he was talking about once remarked that pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress. How heartily we A.A.’s can agree with him. . .
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p p. 93-94
2) As Bill Sees It
Going It Alone, p. 274
Going it alone in spiritual matters is dangerous. How many times have we heard well-intentioned people claim the guidance of God when it was plain that they were mistaken? Lacking both practice and humility, they deluded themselves and were so able to justify the most arrant nonsense on the ground that this was what God had told them.
3) Alcoholics Anonymous – Fourth Edition – Stories p. 572
V – THE RELIGIOUS VIEWS ON A.A.
The Episcopal magazine, The Living Church, observes editorially: “The basis of the technique of Alcoholics Anonymous is the truly Christian principle that a man cannot help himself except by helping others. The A.A. plan is described by the members themselves as ‘self-insurance.’ This self-insurance has resulted in the restoration of physical, mental and spiritual health and self-respect to hundreds of men and women who would be hopelessly down and out without its unique but effective therapy.”
4) Grapevine quote of the day
“In the life of each AA member, there still lurks a tyrant. His name is alcohol.”
Bill W. “The individual in relation to AA as a group”, July, 1946