TOPICS 6/3/2026
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) …we then look at Step Six. We have emphasized willingness as being indispensable.
-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 76
Steps Four and Five were difficult, but worthwhile. Now I was stuck on Step Six and, in despair, I picked up the Big Book and read this passage. I was outside, praying for willingness, when I raised my eyes, and I saw a huge bird rising in the sky. I watched it suddenly give itself up to the powerful air currents of the mountains. Swept along, swooping, and soaring, the bird did things seemingly impossible for mortal birds to do. It was an inspiring example of a fellow creature “letting go” to a power greater than itself. I realize that if the bird “took back his will” and tried to fly with less trust, on its power alone, it would spoil its apparent free flight. That inside, granted me the willingness to pray the Seventh Step prayer. It’s not easy to know God‘s will in each circumstance. I must search out and be ready for the currents, and that’s where prayer and meditation help! Because I am, of myself, nothing, I asked God to grab the knowledge of His will, and the power and courage to carry it out today.
KEEP IT SIMPLE
2) “When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.”
-Hugh Prather
Everyone makes mistakes. We all know that. So why is it so hard to admit our own? We seem to think we have to be perfect. We have a hard time looking at our mistakes. But our mistakes can be very good teachers. Our Twelve Step program helps us learn and grow from our mistakes. In Step Four, half of our work is to think of our mistakes. In Step Five, we admit our mistakes to God, ourselves, and another person. We learn, we grow and become whole. All by coming to know our mistakes. The gift of recovery is not being free for mistakes. Instead, we do the steps to claim our mistakes and talk about them. We find the gift to recovery when we can learn from our mistakes.
3) “You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”
-Oliver Goldsmith
4) H.A.L.T. Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired