TOPICS 9/22/25
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1.Like a gaunt prospector, belt drawn in over the last ounce of food, our pick struck gold. Joy at our release from a lifetime of frustration knew no bounds. Father feels he has struck something better than gold. For a time he may try to hug the new treasure to himself. He may not see at once that he has barely scratched a limitless lode which will pay dividends only if he mine it for the rest of his life and insists on giving away the entire product.
-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pp. 128-29
GRANT ME…
2.People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. —ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
If we meet life with DENIAL and fear instead, we withdraw and start to decay from the inside, out.
Today I pray for your help to meet my day with honesty and courage. Help me walk thrift fear instead of hiding.
BILLS STORY pg. 88
3.Everyone became resigned to the certainty that I would have to be shut up somewhere, or would stumble along to a miserable end. How dark it is before the dawn!
I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.
A DAY AT A TIME
4.When I was bothered by what a speaker or other people said, I retreated, sulking, into my shell. Now, instead of being annoyed or defensive when someone strikes a raw nerve, I try to welcome it — because it allows me to work on my attitudes and perceptions of God, self, other people, and my life situation. We may no longer have active addiction, but we all certainly have an active thinking problem. Am I willing to grow — and grow up?