TOPICS 5/3/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Somehow, being alone with God, doesn’t seem as embarrassing this facing up to another person. Until we actually sit down and talk aloud about what we have so long hidden, our willingness to clean house is still largely theoretical. -12 AND 12, p. 60 Read more…
TOPICS 5/2/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Cling to the thought that, in God‘s hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have – the key to life and happiness for others. With it, you can avert death and misery for them. -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 124 AS BILL SEES IT, p. Read more…
TOPICS 5/1/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our wrongs. 12 AND 12, p. 55 AS BILL SEES IT, p. 121 2) We have ceased fighting anything or anyone – even alcohol. For by this time sanity has returned. Read more…
TOPICS – April 30 1) Daily Reflections A GREAT PARADOX These legacies of suffering and of recovery are easily passedamong alcoholics, one to the other. This is our gift from God,and its bestowal upon others like us is the one aim that todayanimates A.A.’s all around the globe.TWELVE STEPS AND Read more…
TOPICS – April 29 1) Daily Reflections GROUP AUTONOMY Some may think that we have carried the principle of groupautonomy to extremes. For example, in its original “long form,”Tradition Four declares: “Any two or three gathered togetherfor sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided thatas a group they have Read more…
TOPICS = April 28 1) Daily Reflections TWO “MAGNIFICENT STANDARDS” All A.A. progress can be reckoned in terms of just two words:humility and responsibility. Our whole spiritual developmentcan be accurately measured by our degree of adherence to thesemagnificent standards…..AS BILL SEES IT, p. 271 2) A.A. Thought For The Day Read more…
Corrected Date* TOPICS 4/27/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) We realize we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come, if your own Read more…
TOPICS 4/28/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) Few people will sincerely try to practice the AA program unless they have “hit bottom,” for practicing A.A.’s Steps means the adoption of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream of taking. The average alcoholic, self-centered in the extreme, Read more…
TOPICS 4/26/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) I don’t think happiness or unhappiness is the point. How do we meet the problems we face? How do we best learn from them and transmit what we have learned to others, if they would receive the knowledge? -AS BILL SEES IT, p. 306 WALK Read more…
TOPICS 4/25/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) In the late stages of our drinking, the will to resist his fled. Yet when we admit complete defeat and when we become entirely ready to try A.A. principles, our obsession leaves us and we enter a new dimension – freedom under God as we Read more…