TOPICS 12/10/2025
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) Now, what about the rest of the Twelfth Step? The wonderful energy it releases and the eager action by which it carries our message to the next suffering alcoholic and which finally translates the Twelve Steps into action upon all our affairs is the payoff, the magnificent reality, of Alcoholics Anonymous.”
—TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 109
FORGIVING AND MOVING ON
2) Today I see all of my addictive behaviors as an attempt to fill a hole that I feel inside of me. The strange thing is that the more I try to fill it with substances such as people, places and things, I only keep wanting more. In the case of being spiritually full “less is more.”
EACH DAY A NEW BEGINNING
3) “The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good. No good thing can be withheld from the forgiving state of mind.”
—Catherine Ponder
Forgiveness fosters humility, which invites gratitude and gratitude blesses us. Forgiveness should be an ongoing process. Attention to it daily will ease our relationships with others and encourage greater self-love. First on our list for forgiveness should be ourselves. Our lack of self-love hinders our ability to love others, which in turn affects our treatment of them.
The forgiving heart is magical. My whole life will undergo a dynamic change when I develop a forgiving heart.
AS BILL SEES IT
4) Gradually we began to be able to accept the other fellow’s sins as well as his virtues. We coined the potent and meaningful expression “Let us always love the best in others–and never fear their worst.”