TOPICS – May 12 1) Daily Reflections THE PAST IS OVER A.A. experience has taught us we cannot live alone with our pressingproblems and the character defects which cause or aggravate them. If. . . Step Four . . . has revealed in stark relief those experiences we’drather not remember Read more…
TOPICS – May 10 1) Daily Reflections FREE AT LAST Another great dividend we may expect from confiding our defectsto another human being is humility – a word oftenmisunderstood. . . . it amounts to a clear recognition ofwhat and who we really are, followed by a sincere attempt tobecome Read more…
TOPICS – May 6 1) Daily Reflections “HOLD BACK NOTHING” The real tests of the situation are your own willingness toconfide and your full confidence in the one with whom youyou share your first accurate self-survey. . . . Providedyou hold back nothing, your sense of relief will mount fromminute Read more…
TOPICS – May 5 1) Daily Reflections THE FOREST AND THE TREES . . . . what comes to us alone may be garbled by our ownrationalization and wishful thinking. The benefit of talkingto another person is that we can get his direct comment andcounsel on our situation. . . Read more…
TOPICS- 5/4/2026 1) Daily Reflections- ”ENTIRELY HONEST” We must be entirely honest with somebody if we expect to live long orhappily in this world.ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 73-74 2) Twenty-Four Hours A Day A.A. Thought For The Day When I was drinking, I always tried to build myself up. I used Read more…
TOPICS – April 30 1) Daily Reflections A GREAT PARADOX These legacies of suffering and of recovery are easily passedamong alcoholics, one to the other. This is our gift from God,and its bestowal upon others like us is the one aim that todayanimates A.A.’s all around the globe.TWELVE STEPS AND Read more…
TOPICS – April 29 1) Daily Reflections GROUP AUTONOMY Some may think that we have carried the principle of groupautonomy to extremes. For example, in its original “long form,”Tradition Four declares: “Any two or three gathered togetherfor sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided thatas a group they have Read more…
TOPICS = April 28 1) Daily Reflections TWO “MAGNIFICENT STANDARDS” All A.A. progress can be reckoned in terms of just two words:humility and responsibility. Our whole spiritual developmentcan be accurately measured by our degree of adherence to thesemagnificent standards…..AS BILL SEES IT, p. 271 2) A.A. Thought For The Day Read more…
TPOICS – April 21 1) Daily Reflections CULTIVATING FAITH “I don’t think we can do anything very well in this worldunless we practice it. And I don’t believe we do A.A. toowell unless we practice it. . . . We should practice . . .acquiring the spirit of service. We Read more…
TOPICS – April 20 1) Daily Reflections SELF-EXAMINATION . . . we ask God to direct our thinking, especially askingthat it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seekingmotives.ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 86 2) A.A. Thought For The Day The satisfaction you get out of living a sober life is,made up of Read more…