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…
TOPICS – April 19 1) Daily Reflections BROTHERS IN OUR DEFECTS We recovered alcoholics are not so much brothers in virtue as we are brothers in our defects, and in our common strivings to overcome them. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 167 2) A.A. Thought For The Day Since I’ve Read more…
TOPICS – April 18 1) Daily Reflections SELF-HONESTY The deception of others is nearly always rooted in the deception of ourselves. . . . When we are honest with another person, it confirms that we have been honest with ourselves and with God. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 17 2) Read more…
TOPICS – April 14 1) Daily Reflections THE “NUMBER ONE OFFENDER” Resentment is the “number one” offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick.ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 64 Read more…