TOPICS – 9 / 1 / 2025 1) DAILY REFLECTION WILLINGNESS TO GROW – If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. Sobriety fills the painful “hole in the soul” that my alcoholism created. Often I feel so physically well that I believe my Read more…
TOPICS – 8 / 31 / 2025 1) A UNIQUE PROGRAM Alcoholics Anonymous will never have a professional class. We have gained some understanding of the ancient words “Freely ye have received, freely give.” We have discovered that at the point of professionalism, money and spirituality do not mix. I Read more…
8 / 30 / 2025 1) THE ONLY REQUIREMENT . . . “At one time every A.A. group had many membership rules. Everybody was scared witless that something or somebody would capsize the boat. . . . The total list was a mile long. If all those rules had been Read more…
TOPICS – 8 / 29 / 2025 1) DAILY REFLECTIONS I CHOOSE ANONYMITY – We are sure that humility, expressed by anonymity, is the greatest safeguard that Alcoholics Anonymous can ever have. Since there are no rules in A.A. I place myself where I want to be, and so I Read more…
TOPICS – 8 / 28 / 2025 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 Read more…
TOPICS – 8 / 23 / 2025 1) BRINGING THE MESSAGE HOME Can we bring the same spirit of love and tolerance into our sometimes deranged family lives that we bring to our A.A. group? My family members suffer from the effects of my disease. Loving and accepting them as Read more…
TOPICS – 8 / 19 / 2025 1) A FRAME OF REFERENCE Referring to our list [inventory] again. Putting out of our minds the wrongs others had done, we resolutely looked for our own mistakes. Where had we been selfish, dishonest, self-seeking and frightened? ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 67 2) Read more…
TOPICS 18 / 8 / 2025 1) GETTING WELL Very deep, sometimes quite forgotten, damaging emotional conflicts persist below the level of consciousness. Only through positive action can I remove the remains of guilt and shame brought on by alcohol. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 79-80 2) THE Read more…
TOPICS – 8 / 17 / 2025 1) RIGHTING THE HARM In many instances we shall find that though the harm done others has not been great, the emotional harm we have done ourselves has. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 79 2) WISDOM, PEACE AND SERENITY “The first Read more…
TOPICS – 8 / 17 / 2025 1) RIGHTING THE HARM In many instances we shall find that though the harm done others has not been great, the emotional harm we have done ourselves has. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 79 2) WISDOM, PEACE AND SERENITY “The first Read more…