TOPICS 1/6/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) We perceived that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps towards liberation and strength. Our admission of personal powerlessness finally turned out to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built. -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, Read more…
TOPICS 1/5/2026 1) DAILY REFLECTIONS He cannot picture life without alcohol. Someday he will be unable to imagine life either with alcohol or without it. Then he will know loneliness such as few do. He will be at the jumping-off place. He will wish for the end.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 152 Read more…
TOPICS 1/4/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) We feel that elimination of our drinking is but a beginning. A much more important demonstration of our principles lies before us in our respective homes, occupations and affairs. -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 19 WALK IN DRY PLACES 2) Our alcoholism was perhaps the best example Read more…
TOPICS 1/3/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 21 DAYS OF HEALING DAYS OF JOY 2) If progress could be bought, we wouldn’t need meditating. If personal transformation resulted from collecting new ideas, we’d have Read more…
TOPICS 1/2/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty that our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a way which is indeed miraculous. He has commenced to accomplish those things for us which we could never do by ourselves. ALCOHOLICS Read more…
TOPICS 1/1/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty that our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a way which is indeed miraculous. He has commenced to accomplish those things for us which we could never do by ourselves. ALCOHOLICS Read more…
TOPICS 12/31/2025 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) The idea of “twenty-four-hour” living applies primarily to the emotional life of the individual. Emotionally speaking, we must not live in yesterday, nor in tomorrow. -AS BILL SEES IT, p.284 WALK IN DRY PLACES 2) We find that with sobriety, lots of other problems seem Read more…
TOPICS 12/30/2025 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 564 AS BILL SEES IT 2) In the first days of A.A., I wasn’t much bothered about the areas of my life in which I Read more…
TOPICS 12/29/2025 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) “…. Therefore, the joy of good living is the theme of A.A.’s Twelfth Step.” -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 125 AS BILL SEES IT 2) In talking to a prospect, stress the spiritual feature freely. If the man be agnostic or atheist, make it Read more…
TOPICS 12/28/2025 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) In A.A. we aim not only for sobriety – we try again to become citizens of the world that we rejected, and of the world that once rejected us. This is the ultimate demonstration toward which Twelfth Step work is the first but not the Read more…