TOPICS 12/19/2025
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) “When dealing with an alcoholic, there may be a natural annoyance that a man could be so weak, stupid and irresponsible. Even when you understand the malady better, you may feel this feeling rising.
-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 139
WALK IN DRY PLACES
2) The procrastination of our drinking years, caused some of us to become compulsive and fearful about meeting deadlines. We fret and stew, if we’re unable to get things done when we think they should be completed. Without being careless or irresponsible, we should remember that we’re really living in a spiritual world on a spiritual basis. There are times when a delay even turns out to be beneficial because additional information or assistance turns up later on to ensure the success of a project. It is part of mature living to keep promises and to meet the proper deadlines. Let’s be sure, however, that we’re not simply meeting unrealistic deadlines of our own making. We don’t have to do this to atone for any failures of the past.
A DAY AT A TIME
3) The Program teaches me to work for progress, not perfection. That simple admonition gives me great comfort, for it represents a primary way in which my life today is so different than it used to be. In my former life, perfection-for all its impossibility-was so often my number one goal. Today I can believe that if I sometimes fail, I’m not a failure-and if I sometimes make a mistake, I’m not a mistake. And I can apply those same beliefs to The Program’s Twelve Steps as well as to my entire life. Do I believe that only Step One can be practiced with perfection, and that the remaining Steps represent perfect ideals?
4) “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”-Viktor Frankl