TOPICS – 7 / 5 / 2025 1.DAILY REFLECTION: A NEW DIRECTION Our human resources, as marshalled by the will, were not sufficient; they failed utterly. . . . Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God’s will into all our activities. My problem is Read more…
TOPICS – 7 / 5 / 2025 1.DAILY REFLECTION: A NEW DIRECTION Our human resources, as marshalled by the will, were not sufficient; they failed utterly. . . . Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God’s will into all our activities. My problem is Read more…
1. DAILY REFLECTION . . . deep down in every man, woman and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, Read more…
TOPICS 7 / 3 / 2025 EXPERIENCE: THE BEST TEACHER Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 87 Some say that experience is the best teacher, but I believe Read more…
TOPICS – 7 / / 2025 1. THE HEART OF TRUE SOBRIETY We find that no one need have difficulty with the spirituality of the program. Willingness, honesty and open-mindedness are the essentials of recovery. But these are indispensable. Am I honest enough to accept myself as I am and let Read more…
TOPICS – 7 / 1 / 2025 1.THE BEST FOR TODAY The principles we have set down are guides to progress. Just as a sculptor will use different tools to achieve desired effects in creating a work of art, in Alcoholics Anonymous the Twelve Steps are used to bring about Read more…
*Topics 6/29/25* 💌 *DAILY REFLECTIONS* 1)* Having learned to live so happily, we’d show everyone else how. Yes, we of A.A. did dream those dreams. How natural that was, since most alcoholics are bankrupt idealists. So why shouldn’t we share our way of life with everyone? -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE Read more…
TOPICS 6/28/25 💌 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) A year and six months later these three had succeeded with seven more. -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 159 AS BILL SEES IT 2) Nothing pays off like restraint of tongue and pen. We must avoid quick-tempered criticism, furious power-driven argument, sulking, and silent scorn. These Read more…
TOPICS – 6 / 27 / 2025 1.CONFORMING TO THE A.A. WAY We obey A.A.’s Steps and Traditions because we really want them for ourselves. It is no longer a question of good or evil; we conform because we genuinely want to conform. Such is our process of growth in Read more…
TOPICS – 6 / 26 / 2025 🎁 1.A GIFT THAT GROWS WITH TIMEFor most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship and colorful imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good.The longer I chased these elusive Read more…