TOPICS – 8 / 17 / 2025 1) RIGHTING THE HARM In many instances we shall find that though the harm done others has not been great, the emotional harm we have done ourselves has. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 79 2) WISDOM, PEACE AND SERENITY “The first Read more…
TOPICS – 8 / 17 / 2025 1) RIGHTING THE HARM In many instances we shall find that though the harm done others has not been great, the emotional harm we have done ourselves has. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 79 2) WISDOM, PEACE AND SERENITY “The first Read more…
TOPICS 8/16/25💌 1) We might next ask ourselves what we mean when we say that we have “harmed” other people. What kinds of “harm” do people do one another, anyway? To define the word “harm” in a practical way, we might call it the result of instincts in collision, which Read more…
TOPICS 8/15/25💌 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Some of us, though, tripped over a very different snag. We clung to the claim that when drinking we never hurt anybody but ourselves. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS , p. 79 AS BILL SEES IT 2) The alcoholic is like a tornado roaring his Read more…
TOPICS 8/14/25💌 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) To a degree, he has already done this when taking moral inventory, but now the time has come when he ought to redouble his efforts to see how many people he had hurt, and in what ways.TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS , p. 77 EACH Read more…
TOPICS 8/13/25💌 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) … and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop the best possible relations with every human being we know. FATHER LEO’S DAILY MEDITATIONS 2) Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” Read more…
TOPICS 8 / 12 / 2025 1) A LOOK BACKWARD First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done; As a traveler on a fresh and exciting A.A. journey of Read more…
TOPICS – 8 / 11 / 2025 1) REMOVING “THE GROUND GLASS” The moral inventory is a cool examination of the damages that occurred to us during life and a sincere effort to look at them in a true perspective. This has the effect of taking the ground glass out Read more…
TOPICS – 8 / 10 / 25 1 ) REDOUBLING OUR EFFORTS To a degree, he has already done this when taking moral inventory, but now the time has come when he ought to redouble his efforts to see how many people he has hurt, and in what ways TWELVE Read more…
TOPICS 8/9/25💌 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) …and became willing to make amends to them all.” TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 77 It is well for me to contemplate a small, but very significant, two-letter word every time the Lord’s Prayer is said. The word is as. I ask, “Forgive us Read more…