TOPICS 11/13/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) “We ask especially for freedom from self-will and are careful to make no requests for ourselves only. We may ask for ourselves, however, if others will be helped. We are careful never to pray for our own selfish ends.” —ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 87 THE POWER Read more…
TOPICS 11/12/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164 THE LANGUAGE OF LETTING GO 2) An action taken too soon can be as ineffective as one taken too late. It can Read more…
TOPICS 11/7/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) ” … praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.” -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pg 96 POWER IN THE PAUSE 2) Attitude of Gratitude “If you concentrate more on what you have, you’ll always have more!” Read more…
TOPICS 11/6/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him. -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS GRAPEVINE DAILY QUOTE 2) Nearly all of us, when we think about it, agree that we are a long, long way from Read more…
TOPICS 11/5/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) This has to do with the quality of faith. In no deep or meaningful sense had we ever taken stock of ourselves. We had not even prayed rightly. We had always said, “Grant me my wishes” instead of “Thy will be done.” -TWELVE STEPS AND Read more…
TOPICS 10/12/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) When we speak or act hastily or rashly, the ability to be fair-minded and tolerant evaporates on the spot. -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 91 EACH DAY A NEW BEGINNING 2)… there are two entirely opposite attitudes possible in facing the problems of one’s Read more…
TOPICS 10/11/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Our first objective will be the development of self-restraint. -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 91 Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous pg. 60 2) The first requirement is that we be convinced that any life run on self-will can hardly be a success. On that Read more…
TOPICS 10/10/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) If somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the wrong also. -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 90 GRANT ME… 2) Isolation is like a tomb — Ian Kennedy Martin The end road of addiction is isolation. As our illness surrounded our Read more…
TOPICS 10/6/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1)… and Fear says, “You dare not look!” -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 49 The fear of facing myself kept me at a standstill and, until I became willing to put pencil to paper, I was arresting my growth based on an intangible. —MARK HOUSTON Read more…
TOPICS 10/5/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. -12 Read more…