TOPICS – August 29 1) Daily Reflections: I CHOOSE ANONYMITY….We are sure that humility, expressed by anonymity, is thegreatest safeguard that Alcoholics Anonymous can ever have.12 & 12, p.187 2) A.A. Thought For The Day (Twenty-Four Hours A Day): “We cannot get along without prayer and meditation. Onawakening, let us Read more…
Topics August 28 1. Daily Reflections LIGHTENING THE BURDEN Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now. . . . the dark past is . . . the key to life and happiness for others. Read more…
Topics – August 27 1) Daily Reflections I will center my thoughts on a Higher Power. I will surrender all to this power within me. I will become a soldier for this power, feeling the might of the spiritual army as it exists in my life today. I will Read more…
Topics August 26 Daily ReflectionsGIVING IT AWAYThough they knew they must help other alcoholics if they wouldremain sober, that motive became secondary. It was transcendedby the happiness they found in giving themselves to others.Alcoholics Anonymous, p.159 As recovering people, we have a similar problem with waste residues fromour past. We Read more…
TOPICS – August 25 1) Daily Reflections: THE GIFT OF BONDING…Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will.ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS , p. 63 2) Prayer For The Day: I pray that I may not speak or act in the midst of emotional upheaval.I pray that Read more…
TOPICS – Aug 24 1) Daily Reflections: A RIDDLE THAT WORKS..It may be possible to find explanations of spiritual experiencessuch as ours, but I have often tried to explain my own and havesucceeded only in giving the story of it. I know the feeling itgave me and the results it Read more…
TOPICS – August 23 1) Daily Reflections BRINGING THE MESSAGE HOME… Can we bring the same spirit of love and tolerance into oursometimes deranged family lives that we bring to our A.A. group?TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS , pp. 111 -112 2) Prayer For The Day: I pray that I Read more…
Topics – August 22 1) Daily Reflections SEEKING EMOTIONAL STABILITY, p.243 When we developed still more, we discovered the best possible source of emotional stability to be God Himself. We found that dependence upon His perfect justice, forgiveness, and love was healthy, and that it would work where nothing Read more…
Topics – August 21 1. Daily Reflections WE JUST TRY, p.242 My stability came out of trying to give, not out of demanding that I receive. The Best Of Bill, pp. 46-47 2. In recovery, we can more easily forgive ourselves for past actions when we realize they Read more…
Topics August 20 1. Daily Reflections TOWARD EMOTIONAL FREEDOM Since defective relations with other human beings have nearly always been the immediate cause of our woes, including our alcoholism, no field of investigation could yield more satisfying and valuable rewards than this one. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS , p. Read more…