Topics
August 14
Daily Reflections
1. REPAIRING THE DAMAGE
We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of
our effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves. If we
haven’t the will to do this, we ask until it comes. Remember it was
agreed at the beginning we would go to any lengths for victory over
alcohol.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 76
- A. Thought For The Day
“None of us like to think that we are bodily and mentally different
from others. Our drinking careers have been characterized by
countless vain attempts to prove that we could drink like other people.
This delusion that we are like other people has to be smashed. It has
been definitely proved that no real alcoholic has ever recovered
control. Over any considerable period we get worse, never better.
There is no such thing as making a normal drinker out of an alcoholic.”
Am I convinced that I can never drink again normally? - As Bill Sees It
Humility for the Fellowship, Too, p. 226
We of A.A. sometimes brag of the virtues of our Fellowship. Let
us remember that few of these times are actually earned virtues.
We were forced into them, to begin with, by the cruel lash of
We finally adopted them, not because we wished to but
because we had to.
Then, as time confirmed the seeming rightness of our basic
principles, we began to conform because it was right to do so. Some
of us, notably myself, conformed even then with reluctance.
But at last we came to a point where we stood willing to conform
gladly to the principles which experience, under the grace of God,
had taught us.
A.A. Comes Of Age, p.224 - MORE ABOUT ALCOHOLISM
Once more: The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink. Except in a few cases, neither he nor any other human being can provide such a defense. His defense must come from a Higher Power.
Alcoholics Anonymous p. 43