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…
TOPICS 10/24/2025 1.) “BY FAITH AND BY WORKS”On anvils of experience, the structure of our Society was hammered out. . . . Thus has it been with A.A. By faith and by works we have been able to build upon the lessons of an incredible experience. They live today in Read more…
TOPICS 10/23/20251.) WHAT WE KNOW BEST“Shoemaker, stick to thy last!” . . . better do one thing supremely well than many badly. That is the central theme of this Tradition [Five]. Around it our Society gathers in unity. The very life of our Fellowship requires the preservation of this principle.TWELVE Read more…