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TOPICS – 9 / 26 / 2025   1) OUR CHILDREN The alcoholic may find it hard to re-establish friendly relations with his children. . . . In time they will see that he is a new man and in their own way they will let him know it. . Read more…

TOPICS – 9 / 25 / 2025 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 stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence Read more…

TOPICS – 9 / 24 / 2025 1) 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 Read more…

TOPICS 9/23/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1. He [Bill W.] said to me, gently and simply, “Do you think that you are one of us?” -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 413 GRANT ME… 2. “If you go around thinking you’re being cheated, life becomes very unpleasant” —Felix Salten Why did we get into so Read more…

TOPICS 9/22/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1.Like a gaunt prospector, belt drawn in over the last ounce of food, our pick struck gold. Joy at our release from a lifetime of frustration knew no bounds.  Father feels he has struck something better than gold.  For a time he may try to hug Read more…

TOPICS 9/21/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS1. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84The last Promise in the Big Book came true for me on the very first day of sobriety. God kept me sober that day, and on every Read more…

TOPICS – 9 / 20 / 2025 1) H.P. AS GUIDE See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others. This is the Great Fact for us. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164 2) FEAR The achievement of freedom Read more…

TOPICS – 9 / 19 / 2025 1) ACCEPTANCE We admitted we couldn’t lick alcohol with our own remaining resources, and so we accepted the further fact that dependence upon a Higher Power (if only our A.A. group) could do this hitherto impossible job. The moment we were able to Read more…

TOPICS – 9 / 18 / 2017   1) DAILY REFLECTION LOVED BACK TO RECOVERY – Our whole treasured philosophy of self-sufficiency had to be cast aside. This had not been done with old-fashioned willpower; it was instead a matter of developing the willingness to accept these new facts of Read more…

TOPICS 9/17/25   DAILY REFLECTIONS 1 When, with God’s help, we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still suffered the same fears that they could get over them, too. We found that freedom from fear was more important Read more…