TOPICS 1/10/2026
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed.
-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 30
AS BILL SEES IT
2) “ A clear light seems to fall upon us all when we open our eyes. Since our blindness is caused by our own defects, we must first deeply realize what they are. Constructive meditation is the first requirement for each new step in our spiritual growth.”
-LETTER, 1946
TODAY’S GIFT
3) Our thoughts have the power to bring joy or sadness our way, depending on what we expect or look for in our surroundings. The choice of how we want our lives to be is ours. Since we paint a new picture each day, we are always free to change things when they don’t please us. What better time than the present? Is there something in my life I’d like to change today?
WE AGNOSTICS
4) We found the Great Reality deep down within us. In the last analysis it is only there that He may be found. It was so with us.
-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 55