TOPICS – June 27 1) Daily Reflections CONFORMING TO THE A.A. WAY We obey A.A.’s Steps and Traditions because we really want them forourselves. It is no longer a question of good or evil; we conformbecause we genuinely want to conform. Such is our process of growthin unity and function. Read more…
TOPICS 6/26/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) 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.-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 151The longer I chase these elusive feelings with alcohol, the more Read more…
TOPICS – June 25 1) DAILY REFLECTIONS A TWO-WAY STREET If we ask, God will certainly forgive our derelictions. But in no case does He render us white as snow and keep us that way without our cooperation. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 65 2) A.A. Thought For The Read more…
TOPICS – June 24 1) Daily Reflections A SPIRITUAL KINDERGARTEN We are only operating a spiritual kindergarten in whichpeople are enabled to get over drinking and find the graceto go on living to better effect.AS BILL SEES IT, p. 95 2) A.A. Thought For The Day Alcohol is our weakness. Read more…
TOPICS – June 23 1) Daily Reflections TRUSTING OTHERS 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, weshould assess the capacity for harm as well as the capability for goodin every person that Read more…
TOPICS 6/22/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) 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 ready to admit that to be the case with alcohol, so must I make the same Read more…
TOPICS 6/21/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) The achievement of freedom from fear is a lifetime undertaking, one that can never be holy completed. When under heavy attack, acute illness, or in other condition of insecurity, we shall all react to the same emotion – well or badly, as the case may Read more…
TOPICS 6/20/2026 DAILY REFLECTIONS 1) 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 with whatever fears remain. -AS Read more…
TOPICS – June 19 1) Daily Reflections “A.A. REGENERATION” Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arisingout of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one’s oldlife as a condition for finding a new one.A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 46 2) A.A. Thought For The Day We have this Read more…
TOPICS – June 18 1) Daily Reflections A FELLOWSHIP OF FREEDOM . . . 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 no longer live under the Read more…