TOPICS – 6 / 26 / 2025 🎁 1.A GIFT THAT GROWS WITH TIMEFor most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship and colorful imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good.The longer I chased these elusive Read more…
TOPICS – 6 / 26 / 2025 1.A GIFT THAT GROWS WITH TIME For most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship and colorful imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good. The longer I chased these Read more…
TOPICS – 6 / 25 / 2025 1.A TWO-WAY STREET When I prayed, I used to omit a lot of things for which I needed to be forgiven. I thought that if I didn’t mention these things to God, He would never know about them. I did not know that Read more…
TOPICS – 6 / 21 / 2025 1.FEAR AND FAITH The achievement of freedom from fear is a lifetime undertaking, one that can never be wholly completed. Fear has caused suffering when I could have had more faith. There are times when fear suddenly tears me apart, just when I’m Read more…
TOPICS – 6 / 21 / 2025 1.FEAR AND FAITH The achievement of freedom from fear is a lifetime undertaking, one that can never be wholly completed. Fear has caused suffering when I could have had more faith. There are times when fear suddenly tears me apart, just when I’m Read more…
TOPICS – 6 / 20 / 2025 1.RELEASE FROM FEAR The problem of resolving fear has two aspects. We shall have to try for all the freedom from fear that is possible for us to attain. Then we shall need to find both the courage and grace to deal constructively Read more…
1.”A.A. REGENERATION” Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one’s old life as a condition for finding a new one. A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 46 At my first A.A. meeting I was blessed with a feeling that it was all Read more…
TOPICS – 6 / 15 / 2025 1.MAKING A.A. YOUR HIGHER POWER “You can make A.A. itself your ‘higher power.’ Here’s a very large group of people who have solved their alcohol problem, many members have crossed the threshold just this way, their faith broadened and deepened, transformed, they came Read more…
TOPICS – 6 / 14 / 2025 1.WHEN THE GOING GETS ROUGH It is a design for living that works in rough going. The principles I had learned during my early days of sobriety became a mainstay of my life, for not only did I come through, but I never Read more…
TOPICS – 6 / 14 / 2025 1.WHEN THE GOING GETS ROUGH It is a design for living that works in rough going. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 15 2.FREEDOM IS A GIFT Yesterday’s tapes: I need a drink. I can’t exist without a fix. How will I get through the morning Read more…