TOPICS 3/11/2026
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) It is when we try to make our will conform with God’s that we begin to use it rightly. To all of us, this was the most wonderful revelation. Our whole trouble had been the misuse of willpower. We had tried to bombard our problems with it instead of attempting to bring it into agreement with God‘s intention for us. To make this increasingly possible is the purpose A.A.’s Twelve Steps, and Step Three opens the door.
12 AND 12, p. 40
AS BILL SEES IT
2) Sometimes we need to place love ahead of indiscriminate ‘factual honesty.’ We cannot, under the guise of ‘perfect honesty,’ cruelly, and unnecessarily hurt others. Always one must ask, ‘What is the best and most loving thing I can do?’
-LETTER, 1966
BIG BOOK QUOTE, p. 417
3) A.A. and acceptance have taught me that there is a bit of good in the worst of us and a bit of bad in the best of us; that we are all children of God and we each have a right to be here. When I complain about me or about you, I am complaining about God‘s handiwork. I am saying that I know better than God.
WALK IN DRY PLACES
4) The less we try to resist a situation, the less power it has to disturb us. And the less involved we become with such situations, the sooner they seem to change. People in Twelve Step program sometimes report miraculous changes when they adjust their own feelings. One frequently hears outcomes such as this: “I learned not to let this person bother me, and two weeks later he was transferred to another department.“ My own sensitivity makes me vulnerable to good or bad feelings in the atmosphere. Recognizing them for what they are, I’ll enjoy the good feelings and refuse to be disturbed or upset by those that seem bad.