TOPICS – 9 / 9 / 2025 1) OPENING NEW DOORS They [the Promises] are being fulfilled among us — sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. The Promises talked about in this passage are slowly coming to life for me. What has given me hope is putting Step Nine into action. Read more…
TOPICS – 9 / 8 / 2025 1) “WE ASKED HIS PROTECTION” I could not manage my life alone. I had tried that road and failed. My “ultimate sin” dragged me down to the lowest level I have ever reached and, unable even to function, I accepted the fact that Read more…
1) OUR SIDE OF THE STREETWe are there to sweep off our side of the street, realizing that nothing worth while can be accomplished until we do so, never trying to tell him what he should do. His faults are not discussed. We stick to our own.ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pp. 77-78 Read more…
TOPICS 9/6/25 DAILY REFLECTIONS … except when to do so would injure them or others. -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS , p. 59 TWENTY- FOUR HOURS A DAY “Live and Let Live.” We cannot afford the luxury of being intolerant or critical of other people. We do not try to impose our wills Read more…
TOPICS 9/5/25 *DAILY REFLECTIONS* Made direct amends to such people wherever possible. -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS , p. 83 The only amends I can make to those untraceable individuals, the only “changes for the better” I can offer, are indirect amends made to other people, whose paths briefly cross Read more…
DAILY REFLECTIONS Yes, there is a long period of reconstruction ahead. -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS , p. 83 God did for me what I could not do for myself, by removing that gnawing compulsion to drink. He grants me a daily reprieve and will provide the power I need for reconstruction. WE Read more…
TOPICS – 9 / 3 / 2025 1) BUILDING A NEW LIFE We feel a man is unthinking when he says sobriety is enough. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 82 When I reflect on Step Nine, I see that physical sobriety must be enough for me. I need to remember the hopelessness Read more…
TOPICS – 9 / 2 / 2025 1) FINDING “A REASON TO BELIEVE” The willingness to grow is the essence of all spiritual development. Aren’t you willing to believe that there is a reason for your life, even though you may not know yourself what that reason is, or that Read more…
TOPICS – 9 / 1 / 2025 1) DAILY REFLECTION WILLINGNESS TO GROW – If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. Sobriety fills the painful “hole in the soul” that my alcoholism created. Often I feel so physically well that I believe my Read more…
TOPICS – 8 / 31 / 2025 1) A UNIQUE PROGRAM Alcoholics Anonymous will never have a professional class. We have gained some understanding of the ancient words “Freely ye have received, freely give.” We have discovered that at the point of professionalism, money and spirituality do not mix. I Read more…