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…
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…