TOPICS 1/16/2026
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) Why all this insistence that every A.A. must hit bottom first? The answer is that few people will sincerely try to practice the A.A. program unless they have hit bottom. For practicing A.A.’s remaining Steps means the adoption of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream of taking.
-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 24
AS BILL SEES IT
2) Most people feel more secure on the 24 hour basis than they do in the resolution that they will never drink again. Most of them have broken too many resolutions. It’s really a matter of personal choice; every A.A. has the privilege of interpreting the program as he likes.
EACH DAY A NEW BEGINNING
3) We are both the teachers and the pupils. We need both our friends and those we may label our enemies for what they can help us learn. I will carefully look about me today with gladness at the travelers I’ve selected to learn from.
4) F.E.A.R. Face everything and recover!