TOPICS 1/17/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) The trouble with us alcoholics was this: We demanded that the world give us happiness and peace of mind in just a particular order. We wanted to get it by the alcohol route. And we weren’t successful. But when we take time to find out Read more…
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 Read more…
TOPICS 1/12/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Our very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, and the people about us as they are. This is to adopt a realistic humility without which no genuine advance can even begin. Again and again, we shall Read more…
TOPICS 1/11/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Only Step One, where we made the 100% admission we were powerless over alcohol, can be practiced with absolute perfection. -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 68 AS BILL SEES IT 2) “It is not always the quantity of good things that you do, it Read more…
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 Read more…
TOPICS 1/6/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) We perceived that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps towards liberation and strength. Our admission of personal powerlessness finally turned out to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built. -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, Read more…
TOPICS 1/5/2026 1) DAILY REFLECTIONS He cannot picture life without alcohol. Someday he will be unable to imagine life either with alcohol or without it. Then he will know loneliness such as few do. He will be at the jumping-off place. He will wish for the end.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 152 Read more…
TOPICS 1/4/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) We feel that elimination of our drinking is but a beginning. A much more important demonstration of our principles lies before us in our respective homes, occupations and affairs. -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 19 WALK IN DRY PLACES 2) Our alcoholism was perhaps the best example Read more…
TOPICS 12/31/2025 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) The idea of “twenty-four-hour” living applies primarily to the emotional life of the individual. Emotionally speaking, we must not live in yesterday, nor in tomorrow. -AS BILL SEES IT, p.284 WALK IN DRY PLACES 2) We find that with sobriety, lots of other problems seem Read more…
TOPICS 12/30/2025 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 564 AS BILL SEES IT 2) In the first days of A.A., I wasn’t much bothered about the areas of my life in which I Read more…