TOPICS – 10 / 9 / 2025 1) A SPIRITUAL AXIOM It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 90 2) EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY If we examine every disturbance Read more…
TOPICS – 10 / 8 / 2025 💌 1) DAILY INVENTORY . . . and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 59 I was beginning to approach my new life of sobriety with unaccustomed enthusiasm. New friends were cropping up and some of my battered friendships Read more…
TOPICS – 10 / 7 / 2025 1) DAILY MONITORING The spiritual axiom referred to in the Tenth Step—”every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us“—also tells me that there are no exceptions to it. No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I Read more…
TOPICS – 10 / 2 / 2025 1) THE ACID TEST As we work the first nine Steps, we prepare ourselves for the adventure of a new life. But when we approach Step Ten we commence to put our A.A. way of living to practical use, day by day, in Read more…
TOPICS – 10 / 1 / 2025 1) LEST WE BECOME COMPLACENTIt is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe.ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85 2) INSANITYHowever intelligent we may Read more…
TOPICS – 9 / 26 / 2025 1) OUR CHILDREN The alcoholic may find it hard to re-establish friendly relations with his children. . . . In time they will see that he is a new man and in their own way they will let him know it. . Read more…
TOPICS – 9 / 25 / 2025 FIRST THINGS FIRST Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job – wife or no wife – we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence Read more…
TOPICS – 9 / 24 / 2025 1) VIGILANCE We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: “Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic.” Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever. If we are planning to stop drinking, there Read more…
TOPICS – 9 / 20 / 2025 1) H.P. AS GUIDE See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others. This is the Great Fact for us. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164 2) FEAR The achievement of freedom Read more…
TOPICS – 9 / 19 / 2025 1) ACCEPTANCE We admitted we couldn’t lick alcohol with our own remaining resources, and so we accepted the further fact that dependence upon a Higher Power (if only our A.A. group) could do this hitherto impossible job. The moment we were able to Read more…