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…
8 / 30 / 2025 1) THE ONLY REQUIREMENT . . . “At one time every A.A. group had many membership rules. Everybody was scared witless that something or somebody would capsize the boat. . . . The total list was a mile long. If all those rules had been Read more…
TOPICS – 8 / 29 / 2025 1) DAILY REFLECTIONS I CHOOSE ANONYMITY – We are sure that humility, expressed by anonymity, is the greatest safeguard that Alcoholics Anonymous can ever have. Since there are no rules in A.A. I place myself where I want to be, and so I Read more…
TOPICS – 8 / 28 / 2025 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 Read more…
TOPICS 8/27/25 🧐 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1. When World War II broke out, our A.A. dependence on a Higher Power had its first major test. A.A.’s entered the services and were scattered all over the world. Would they be able to take the discipline, stand up under fire, and endure? -As Read more…
TOPICS 8/26/25 🧐 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS TWENTY FOUR HOURS A DAY 2. “Unless we discuss our defects with another person, we do not acquire enough humility, fearlessness, and honesty to really get the program. Read more…
TOPICS 8/25/25 🧐 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS , p. 63 TWENTY FOUR HOURS A DAY 2. We pocket our pride and go to it, illuminating every twist of character and every dark cranny of the Read more…