TOPICS 5/2/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Cling to the thought that, in God‘s hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have – the key to life and happiness for others. With it, you can avert death and misery for them. -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 124 AS BILL SEES IT, p. Read more…
TOPICS 5/1/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our wrongs. 12 AND 12, p. 55 AS BILL SEES IT, p. 121 2) We have ceased fighting anything or anyone – even alcohol. For by this time sanity has returned. Read more…
Corrected Date* TOPICS 4/27/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) We realize we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come, if your own Read more…
TOPICS 4/28/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Few people will sincerely try to practice the AA program unless they have “hit bottom,” for practicing A.A.’s Steps means the adoption of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream of taking. The average alcoholic, self-centered in the extreme, Read more…
TOPICS 4/26/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) I don’t think happiness or unhappiness is the point. How do we meet the problems we face? How do we best learn from them and transmit what we have learned to others, if they would receive the knowledge? -AS BILL SEES IT, p. 306 WALK Read more…
TOPICS 4/25/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) In the late stages of our drinking, the will to resist his fled. Yet when we admit complete defeat and when we become entirely ready to try A.A. principles, our obsession leaves us and we enter a new dimension – freedom under God as we Read more…
ENTERING A NEW DIMENSION In the late stages of our drinking, the will to resist has fled. Yet when we admit complete defeat and when we become entirely ready to try A.A. principles, our obsession leaves us and we enter a new dimension—freedom under God as we understand Him. — Read more…
TOPICS 4/24/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Alcoholism was a lonely business, even though we were surrounded by people who loved us… We were trying to find emotional security either by dominating or by being dependent upon others… We still mainly tried to be secure by some unhealthy sort of domination or Read more…
TOPICS 4/23/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) It would be a product of false pride to claim that AA is a cure-all, even for alcoholism. -AS BILL SEES IT, p. 285 BIG BOOK QUOTE, p. 89 2) Practical experience shows that nothing will so much ensure immunity from drinking as intensive work Read more…
TOPICS 4/22/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Moments of perception can build into a lifetime of spiritual serenity, as I have excellent reason to know. Roots of reality, supplanting the neurotic underbrush , will hold fast despite the high winds of the forces which would destroy us, or which we would use Read more…