TOPICS 12/9/2025
1) DAILY REFLECTION
When the Twelfth Step is seen in its full implication, it is really talking about the kind of love that has no price tag on it.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, P. 109
2) TWENTY FOUR HOURS A DAY
The way of A.A. is the way of fellowship. We have read a good deal about fellowship and yet it is such an important part of the A.A. program that it seems that we cannot think too much about it. Human beings were not meant to live alone. A hermit’s life is not a natural one. We all need to be ourselves at times, but we cannot really live without the companionship of others. Our natures demand it. Our lives depend largely upon it. The fellowship of A.A. seems to us to be the best in the world. Do I fully appreciate what the fellowship of A.A. means to me?
3) Never talk down to an alcoholic from any moral or spiritual hilltop; simply lay out the lot of spiritual tools for his inspection. Show him how they worked for you. Offer him friendship and fellowship.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 109
4) “The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.”
William James