TOPICS 11/26/25
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
-TWELVE AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 160
KEEP IT SIMPLE
2) I was never less alone when by myself.
—Edward Gibson
Many of us get into trouble when we don’t accept that we need others. This is why helping others is so important. It teaches us that we need others, and others need us. By helping others, we learn about the give-and-take of human relationships. There is no give-an-take in addiction. There is just take. Now, finally, we can give too!
FATHER LEO’S DAILY MEDITATIONS
3) Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.”
–Horace
Pain and suffering are humbling in the truest sense; they stop you from being arrogant, selfish and “prideful”.
Today adversity is part of life and part of being human. Not to grow through adversity is to die. To have everything is to experience nothing. To feel in life — to have emotion — demands adversity and pain.
ALTERED ATTITUDES
4) Compared to our past, we should have changed dramatically in our attitudes. If we’ve become sober but our attitudes remain unchanged, we might be experiencing what’s called being a “dry drunk.” True recovery requires emotional sobriety as well as physical sobriety.