TOPICS – 6 / 26 / 2025 1.A GIFT THAT GROWS WITH TIME For 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 Read more…
TOPICS – 6 / 25 / 2025 1.A TWO-WAY STREET When I prayed, I used to omit a lot of things for which I needed to be forgiven. I thought that if I didn’t mention these things to God, He would never know about them. I did not know that Read more…
Topics 6/24/25 💌 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) We are only operating a spiritual kindergarten in which people are enabled to get over drinking and find the grace to go on living to better effect. -AS BILL SEES IT, p. 95 TWENTY-FOUR HOURS A DAY 2) Alcohol is our weakness. We suffer Read more…
Topics 6/23/25 💌 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) But does trust require that we be blind to other people’s motives or, indeed, to our own? Not at all; this would be folly. Most certainly, we should assess the capacity for harm as well as the capability for good in every person that Read more…
Topics 6/22/25💌 1) DAILY REFLECTIONS This brought me to the good healthy realization that there were plenty of situations left in the world over which I had no personal power–that if I was so ready to admit that to be the case with alcohol, so I must make the same Read more…
TOPICS – 6 / 21 / 2025 1.FEAR AND FAITH The achievement of freedom from fear is a lifetime undertaking, one that can never be wholly completed. Fear has caused suffering when I could have had more faith. There are times when fear suddenly tears me apart, just when I’m Read more…
TOPICS – 6 / 21 / 2025 1.FEAR AND FAITH The achievement of freedom from fear is a lifetime undertaking, one that can never be wholly completed. Fear has caused suffering when I could have had more faith. There are times when fear suddenly tears me apart, just when I’m Read more…
TOPICS – 6 / 20 / 2025 1.RELEASE FROM FEAR The problem of resolving fear has two aspects. We shall have to try for all the freedom from fear that is possible for us to attain. Then we shall need to find both the courage and grace to deal constructively Read more…
1.”A.A. REGENERATION” Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one’s old life as a condition for finding a new one. A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 46 At my first A.A. meeting I was blessed with a feeling that it was all Read more…
TOPICS 6/18/25 💌 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) … if only men were granted absolute liberty, and were compelled to obey no one, they would then voluntarily associate themselves in the common interest. -AS BILL SEES IT, p. 50 When I release the past and all the excess baggage I have carried Read more…