TOPICS – 10 / 16 / 2025 1) THROUGHOUT EACH DAY This is not an overnight matter. It should continue for our lifetime. Not until several more years of sobriety had elapsed did I realize the full meaning of Step Ten, and the word “continued.” “Continued” does not mean Read more…
TOPICS – 10 / 15 / 2025 1) MY CHECKLIST, NOT YOURS Gossip barbed with our anger, a polite form of murder by character assassination, has its satisfactions for us, too. Here we are not trying to help those we criticize; we are trying to proclaim our own righteousness. Read more…
TOPICS 10 / 14 / 2025 1) A PROGRAM FOR LIVING When we retire at night, we constructively review our day. . . . On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. . . . Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking Read more…
TOPICS – 10 / 13 / 2025 1) UNREMITTING INVENTORIES Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear. When these crop up, we ask God at once to remove them. We discuss them with someone immediately and make amends quickly if we have harmed anyone. Then we resolutely Read more…
TOPICS 10/12/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) When we speak or act hastily or rashly, the ability to be fair-minded and tolerant evaporates on the spot. -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 91 EACH DAY A NEW BEGINNING 2)… there are two entirely opposite attitudes possible in facing the problems of one’s Read more…
TOPICS 10/11/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Our first objective will be the development of self-restraint. -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 91 Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous pg. 60 2) The first requirement is that we be convinced that any life run on self-will can hardly be a success. On that Read more…
TOPICS 10/10/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) If somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the wrong also. -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 90 GRANT ME… 2) Isolation is like a tomb — Ian Kennedy Martin The end road of addiction is isolation. As our illness surrounded our Read more…
TOPICS – 10 / 9 / 2025 1) A SPIRITUAL AXIOM It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 90 2) EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY If we examine every disturbance Read more…
TOPICS – 10 / 8 / 2025 💌 1) DAILY INVENTORY . . . and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 59 I was beginning to approach my new life of sobriety with unaccustomed enthusiasm. New friends were cropping up and some of my battered friendships Read more…
TOPICS – 10 / 7 / 2025 1) DAILY MONITORING The spiritual axiom referred to in the Tenth Step—”every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us“—also tells me that there are no exceptions to it. No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I Read more…