Topics September 2 Daily Reflections FINDING “A REASON TO BELIEVE”The willingness to grow is the essence of all spiritualdevelopment. As Bill Sees It, p.171 As Bill Sees ItToward Maturity, p.244Many oldsters who have put our A.A. “booze cure” to severe butsuccessful tests still find they often lack emotional sobriety. Toattain Read more…
Topics August 28 1. Daily Reflections LIGHTENING THE BURDEN Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now. . . . the dark past is . . . the key to life and happiness for others. Read more…
Topics – August 27 1) Daily Reflections I will center my thoughts on a Higher Power. I will surrender all to this power within me. I will become a soldier for this power, feeling the might of the spiritual army as it exists in my life today. I will Read more…
Topics August 26 Daily ReflectionsGIVING IT AWAYThough they knew they must help other alcoholics if they wouldremain sober, that motive became secondary. It was transcendedby the happiness they found in giving themselves to others.Alcoholics Anonymous, p.159 As recovering people, we have a similar problem with waste residues fromour past. We Read more…
Topics – August 22 1) Daily Reflections SEEKING EMOTIONAL STABILITY, p.243 When we developed still more, we discovered the best possible source of emotional stability to be God Himself. We found that dependence upon His perfect justice, forgiveness, and love was healthy, and that it would work where nothing Read more…
Topics – August 21 1. Daily Reflections WE JUST TRY, p.242 My stability came out of trying to give, not out of demanding that I receive. The Best Of Bill, pp. 46-47 2. In recovery, we can more easily forgive ourselves for past actions when we realize they Read more…
Topics August 20 1. Daily Reflections TOWARD EMOTIONAL FREEDOM Since defective relations with other human beings have nearly always been the immediate cause of our woes, including our alcoholism, no field of investigation could yield more satisfying and valuable rewards than this one. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS , p. Read more…
Topics August 161. Daily Reflections “I HAD DROPPED OUT” We might next ask ourselves what we mean when we say that we have“harmed” other people. What kinds of “harm” do people do oneanother, anyway? To define the word “harm” in a practical way, wemight call it the result of instincts Read more…
TOPICS – August 15 1. DAILY REFLECTION DIDN’T WE HURT ANYBODY? Some of us, though, tripped over a very different snag. We clung to the claim that when drinking we never hurt anybody but ourselves. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS , p. 79 2. A. A. Thought For the Read more…
Topics August 14 Daily Reflections1. REPAIRING THE DAMAGEWe attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out ofour effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves. If wehaven’t the will to do this, we ask until it comes. Remember it wasagreed at the beginning we would go to Read more…