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…
TOPICS 10/6/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1)… and Fear says, “You dare not look!” -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 49 The fear of facing myself kept me at a standstill and, until I became willing to put pencil to paper, I was arresting my growth based on an intangible. —MARK HOUSTON Read more…
TOPICS 10/5/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. -12 Read more…
TOPICS 10/4/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS1)… we know that the pains of drinking had to come before sobriety, and emotional turmoil before serenity.-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 94 GRANT ME… 2) COURAGE IS LIKE LOVE; IT MUST HAVE HOPE TO NOURISH IT. —NAPOLEONHope has us invest in life, others, and our Read more…
TOPICS 10/3/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Someone who knew what he was talking about once remarked that pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress. How heartily we A.A.’s can agree with him. -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p p. 93-94 DAYS OF HEALING DAYS OF JOY 2) There will always Read more…
TOPICS – 10 / 2 / 2025 1) THE ACID TEST As we work the first nine Steps, we prepare ourselves for the adventure of a new life. But when we approach Step Ten we commence to put our A.A. way of living to practical use, day by day, in Read more…