TOPICS 9/28/25
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics.
-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 89
AA BIG BOOK QUOTE
2)There is, however, a vast amount of fun about it all. I suppose some would be shocked at our seeming worldliness and levity. But just underneath there is deadly earnestness. Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish. – Pg. 16 – Bill’s Story
DISTORTED THINKING
3) The alcoholic lied to hide their uses and abuses, the family members lied to hide their fear, pain and confusion. We chose stinking thinking over the truth, lying to the world and to ourselves. Pretty soon, our thinking became so filled with denial and rationalization that we started to live by it. Eventually our sense of reality became distorted. Today, I am willing to live life on life’s terms, not mine. I am able to tolerate the truth because I know that I have a program, I have accepted the things I cannot change and changed the things I can.
– Tian Dayton PhD
POCKET SPONSOR
4)They say the easiest way to stay clean and sober is to breathe in and breathe out and don’t drink or drug in between. That leads to abstinence. Working the Steps leads to recovery.
Nothing is so bad that a drink or drug won’t make it worse and nothing is so good that working my steps won’t make it better.