TOPICS 3/7/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Once we have placed the key of willingness in the lock and have the door ever so slightly open, we find that we can always open it some more. -12 AND 12, p. 35 WALK IN DRY PLACES 2) When we don’t return things to Read more…
TOPICS 3/6/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Do not let any prejudice you might have against spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself what they mean to you. -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 47 AS BILL SEES IT, p. 65 2) Let us always remember that any society of men and women that Read more…
TOPICS 3/5/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) But just how, in these circumstances, does a fellow “take it easy?“ That’s what I want to know. 12 and 12, p. 26 I was never known for my patience. How many times have I asked “Why should I wait, when I can have it Read more…
TOPICS 3/4/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) The essence of all growth is a willingness to make a change for the better and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails. -AS BILL SEES IT, p. 115 BIG BOOK QUOTE, p. 49 2) Instead of regarding ourselves as intelligent agents, Read more…
TOPICS 3/3/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run riot, though he usually doesn’t think so. Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness. We must, Read more…
TOPICS 3/2/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Do not be discouraged. -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 60 … Hope is the key that unlocks the door of discouragement. The program promises me that if I do not pick up the first drink today, I will always have hope. Having come to believe that I Read more…
TOPICS 3/1/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) It works-it really does. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 88 BIG BOOK QUOTE, p. 276 2) There is no more aloneness, with that awful ache, so deep in the heart of every alcoholic that nothing before, could ever reach it. That ache is gone and never need Read more…
TOPICS 2/28/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) When told that our Society has no president having authority to govern it, no treasurer who can compel the payment of any dues… our friends gasp and exclaim, “This simply can’t be…” -12 and 12, p. 132 BIG BOOK QUOTE, p. 275 2) A.A. is Read more…
TOPICS 2/27/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Where does A.A. got its direction?… These practical folk then read Tradition Two, and learn that the sole authority in A.A. is a loving God as he may express himself in the group conscience…. The elder statesman is the one who sees the wisdom of Read more…
TOPICS 2/26/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) A.A. is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.AS BILL SEES IT, p. 35 BIG BOOK QUOTE, p. 5582) God willing, we members of A.A. may never again have to Read more…