TOPICS 7 / 15 / 2025
1.DAILY REFLECTIONS – PRIDE
For thousands of years we have been demanding more than our share of security, prestige, and romance. When we seemed to be succeeding, we drank to dream still greater dreams. When we were frustrated, even in part, we drank for oblivion. Never was there enough of what we thought we wanted.
In all these strivings, so many of them well-intentioned, our crippling handicap had been our lack of humility. We had lacked the perspective to see that character-building and spiritual values had to come first, and that material satisfactions were not the purpose of living.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 71
2.KEEP WHAT WE HAVE BY GIVING IT AWAY
“We Give Away to Keep. That seems absurd and untrue. How can you keep anything if you give it away? But in order to keep whatever it is we get in A.A., we must go about giving it away to others, for no fees or rewards of any kind. When we cannot afford to give away what we have received so freely in A.A., we had better get ready for our next ‘drunk.’ It will happen every time. We’ve got to continue to give it away in order to keep it.”
BIG BOOK pg 341
3.MY RESPONSIBILITY
I believe the greatest insight into my life is that I am responsible; my responsibility is an important and dignified gift from God. My responsibility reveals my involvement in God’s creation, in my life and my recovery from alcoholism. Along with the acceptance of my alcoholism I also accepted the responsibility to remain sober in my decisions and lifestyle.
FATHER LEOS DAILY MEDITATION
4.UPON AWAKENING
On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Before, we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from selfpity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. Under these conditions we can employ our mental faculties with assurance, for after all God gave us brains to use. Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives
BIG BOOK pg 86