TOPICS 1/25/2026
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) … A.A. is really saying to every serious drinker, “You are an A.A. member if you say so … nobody can keep you out.”
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS
POWER IN THE PAUSE
2) Some day he will be unable to imagine life either with alcohol or without it. Then he will know loneliness such as few do. He will be at the jumping place.
This life I live today, sober, is so much better is so much better than the life I was living while drinking.
GOD GRANT ME…
3) It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.
—Mignon McLaughlin
When we are unhappy, we are also very often afraid. We fear things will get worse, not better, if anything changes.
The changes we make in recovery bring us happiness. We choose our changes with the help of our Higher Power and healthy people in recove
ry.
FORGIVING AND MOVING ON
4)Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time.
–Eileen Caddy
Today, when I discuss the abuse I suffered, which is seldom, I can do so without the anger and pain bubbling up. I canl help others with my story, and then I can let it go. It is my history, but it’s no longer ruling my present.
Like Thomas Raddall said, “Don’t brood on what’s past, but never forget it either.” forget it either.” BB BBn.