TOPICS – 5/28/2025 💗 1.EQUAL RIGHTSAt one time or another most A.A. groups go on rule-making benders. . . After a time fear and intolerance subside. [and we realize] We do not wish to deny anyone his chance to recover from alcoholism. We wish to be just as inclusive as Read more…
TOPICS – 5/28/2025 💗 1.EQUAL RIGHTSAt one time or another most A.A. groups go on rule-making benders. . . After a time fear and intolerance subside. [and we realize] We do not wish to deny anyone his chance to recover from alcoholism. We wish to be just as inclusive as Read more…
TOPICS 5/27/2025 NO MAUDLIN GUILT Day by day, we try to move a little toward God’s perfection. So we need not be consumed by maudlin guilt. . . .When I first discovered that there is not a single “don’t” in the Twelve Steps of A.A., I was disturbed because this Read more…
TOPICS – 5/26/2025 1.TURNING NEGATIVE TO POSITIVE Our spiritual and emotional growth in A.A. does not depend so deeply upon success as it does upon our failures and setbacks. If you will bear this in mind, I think that your slip will have the effect of kicking you upstairs, Read more…
Topics 5/25/25 📬 Progressive Gratitude 1) Gratitude should go forward, rather than backward. -AS BILL SEES IT, p. 29 I am very grateful that my Higher Power has given me a second chance to live a worthwhile life. Through Alcoholics Anonymous, I have been restored to sanity. The promises are Read more…
Topics 5/24/25📬 Daily Reflections 1)“HAPPY, JOYOUS AND FREE” We are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free. We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us. But it is clear that we Read more…
*Topics 5/23/25* 📬 1) *Daily Reflection* *Spiritual Health* When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically. -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p 64 2) *Walk In Dry Places* The good news of the Twelve step program is that we have a Higher Power whose presence serves as Read more…
TOPICS 5/22/2025 1 WE . . . (The first word of the First Step) When I was drinking all I could ever think about was “I, I, I,” or “Me, Me, Me.” Such painful obsession of self, such soul sickness, such spiritual selfishness bound me to the bottle for Read more…
TOPICS – 5/21/2025 1 A LIST OF BLESSINGS One exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings… What did I have to be grateful for? I shut myself up and started listing the blessings for which I was in no way responsible, beginning Read more…
TOPICS – 5/21/2025 1 A LIST OF BLESSINGS One exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings… What did I have to be grateful for? I shut myself up and started listing the blessings for which I was in no way responsible, Read more…