TOPICS – September 30 1) Daily Reflections: THE CIRCLE AND THE TRIANGLE… The circle stands for the whole world of A.A., and the triangle stands for A.A.’s Three Legacies of Recovery, Unity, and Service. Within our wonderful new world, we have found freedom from our fatal obsession. A.A. COMES OF Read more…
TOPICS – September 29 1) Daily Reflections: EXACTLY ALIKE… Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright spot of our lives.ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 89 2) Prayer For The Day: I pray that I may accept every task as a challenge. I know I cannot wholly fail if Read more…
Topics September 28 1) Daily Reflections LOVE WITHOUT STRINGS Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 89 2) A.A. Thought For The Day It is essential that the A.A. program become part of us. We Read more…
Topics – Sept 27 1) Daily Reflections WITHOUT RESERVATION When practicing service to others, if my successes give rise to grandiosity, I must reflect on what brought me to this point. What has been given joyfully, with love, must be passed on without reservation and without expectation. For as I Read more…
TOPICS – Sept 26 1) Daily Reflections: Our Children While on the road to recovery I received a gift that could not be purchased. It was a card from my son in college, saying, “Dad, you can’t imagine how glad I am that everything is okay. Happy Birthday, I love Read more…
TOPICS – September 25 1) Daily Reflections: FIRST THINGS FIRST…Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth:Job or no job — wife or no wife — we simply do not stopdrinking so long as we place dependence upon other peopleahead of dependence on God.ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. Read more…
TOPICS – September 24 1) Daily Reflections: VIGILANCE… We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again:“Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic.” Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever. If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be Read more…
TOPICS – September 23 1) Daily Reflections: “I WAS AN EXCEPTION” He [Bill W.] said to me, gently and simply, “Do you think that you are one of us?”ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 413 2) Prayer For The Day: I pray that I may try to draw near to God each day Read more…
September 221. Daily ReflectionsA “LIMITLESS LODE” When I talk with a newcomer to A.A., my past looks mestraight in the face. I see the pain in those hopefuleyes, I extend my hand, and then the miracle happens: Ibecome healed. My problems vanish as I reach out to histrembling soul. Prayer Read more…
Topics – Sept 21 1) Daily Reflections THE LAST PROMISE We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84 2) In taking personal inventory of ourselves, we have to face facts as they really are. We have to Read more…