TOPICS – 11 / 3 / 2025 1. FOCUSING AND LISTENING There is a direct linkage among self-examination, meditation, and prayer. Taken separately, these practices can bring much relief and benefit. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 98 2. NEW FOUND PEACE We enjoy moments in which there is something Read more…
TOPICS – 11 / 2 / 2025 1. KEEPING OPTIMISM AFLOATThe other Steps can keep most of us sober and somehow functioning. But Step Eleven can keep us growing, . . .THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEART, p. 240 💗 2. How did you find GUTS? 🩵 3. When did you Read more…
TOPICS – 11 / 1 / 2025 1) I CANNOT CHANGE THE WIND It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85 My first Read more…
TOPICS 10 / 31 / 2025 1) AVOIDING CONTROVERSY All history affords us the spectacle of striving nations and groups finally torn asunder because they were designed for, or tempted into, controversy. Others fell apart because of sheer self-righteousness while trying to enforce upon the rest of mankind some Read more…
10 / 30 / 2025 1) LIVE AND LET LIVE Do I remember that I have a right to my opinion but that others don’t have to share it? That’s the spirit of “Live and Let Live.” The Serenity Prayer reminds me, with God’s help, to “Accept the things I Read more…
10 / 29 / 2025 1) OUR SURVIVAL Since recovery from alcoholism is life itself to us, it is imperative that we preserve in full strength our means of survival. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 177 NEW FOUND PEACE We enjoy moments in which there is something like Read more…
TOPICS – 10 / 28 / 2025 1) AN UNBROKEN TRADITION We conceive the survival and spread of Alcoholics Anonymous to be something of far greater importance than the weight we could collectively throw back of any other cause. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 177 How much it Read more…
TOPICS – 10 / 27 / 2026 1) GLOBAL SHARING The only thing that matters is that he is an alcoholic who has found a key to sobriety. These legacies of suffering and of recovery are easily passed among alcoholics, one to the other. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. Read more…
TOPICS – 10 / 26 / 2025 1) ONE ULTIMATE AUTHORITY For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority — a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 132 2) WALK IN DRY PLACES Though AA’s avowed Read more…
TOPICS 10/25/2025 1.) A.A.’s HEARTBEAT “Without unity, the heart of A.A. would cease to beat; . . .” AS BILL SEES IT, p. 125 2.) THE PRESENT MOMENT “”Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.” – Eckhart Tolle 3.) BY HIMSELF “No man was Read more…