TOPICS – June 29 1) Daily Reflections A RIPPLING EFFECT Having learned to live so happily, we’d show everyone else how. . .Yes, we of A.A. did dream those dreams. How natural that was, since most alcoholics are bankrupt idealists. . .So why shouldn’t we share our way of life Read more…
TOPICS – June 27 1) Daily Reflections CONFORMING TO THE A.A. WAY We obey A.A.’s Steps and Traditions because we really want them forourselves. It is no longer a question of good or evil; we conformbecause we genuinely want to conform. Such is our process of growthin unity and function. Read more…
TOPICS – June 25 1) DAILY REFLECTIONS A TWO-WAY STREET If we ask, God will certainly forgive our derelictions. But in no case does He render us white as snow and keep us that way without our cooperation. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 65 2) A.A. Thought For The Read more…
TOPICS – June 24 1) Daily Reflections A SPIRITUAL KINDERGARTEN We are only operating a spiritual kindergarten in whichpeople are enabled to get over drinking and find the graceto go on living to better effect.AS BILL SEES IT, p. 95 2) A.A. Thought For The Day Alcohol is our weakness. Read more…
TOPICS – June 23 1) Daily Reflections TRUSTING OTHERS But does trust require that we be blind to other people’s motives or,indeed, to our own? Not at all; this would be folly. Most certainly, weshould assess the capacity for harm as well as the capability for goodin every person that Read more…
TOPICS – June 19 1) Daily Reflections “A.A. REGENERATION” Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arisingout of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one’s oldlife as a condition for finding a new one.A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 46 2) A.A. Thought For The Day We have this Read more…
TOPICS – June 18 1) Daily Reflections A FELLOWSHIP OF FREEDOM . . . if only men were granted absolute liberty, and were compelled to obey no one, they would then voluntarily associate themselves in the common interest.AS BILL SEES IT, p. 50 When I no longer live under the Read more…
TOPICS – June 17 1) Daily Reflections “DEEP DOWN WITHIN US” We found the Great Reality deep down within us. In the lastanalysis it is only there that He may be found. . . . searchdiligently within yourself . . . With this attitude youcannot fail. The consciousness of your Read more…
TOPICS – June 13 1) Daily Reflections LIVING OUR AMENDS “Years of living with an alcoholic is almost sure to make anywife or child neurotic. The entire family is to some extent,ill.”ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 122 It is important for me to realize that, as an alcoholic, I notonly hurt myself, Read more…
TOPICS – June 12 1) Daily Reflections FORMING TRUE PARTNERSHIPS But it is from our twisted relations with family, friends,and society at large that many of us have suffered the most.We have been especially stupid and stubborn about them. Theprimary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inabilityto Read more…