TOPICS 12/18/2025
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) “Tell him exactly what happened to you. Stress the spiritual feature freely.”
-ALCOHOLICS ANOMYMOUS, p. 93
KEEP IT SIMPLE
2) “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Franklin D. Roosevelt As addicts, we had lots of fear. Some of us were afraid of failure. So we didn’t try to do much. Or else we tried too hard all the time. We used alcohol and other drugs to forget our fear, but it didn’t go away. It got worse. Now we know we don’t have to be afraid. When our lives are in the care of our Higher Power, we are safe. Faith is the cure for our fear. But still, fear keeps creeping back inside us. That’s OK. It’s normal. There is so much that’s new in our sober life! We don’t know what will happen next. It’s hard to always remember to trust our Higher Power. It’s hard to always do what our Higher Power says. It’s hard to always have faith. We have to practice turning our fear over to our Higher Power.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS
3) Step Three-“Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.”
Therefore, we who are alcoholics can consider ourselves fortunate, indeed. Each of us has had his own near-fatal encounter with the juggernaut of self will, and has suffered enough under its weight to be willing to look for something better. So it is by circumstances rather than by any virtue that we have been driven to A.A., have admitted defeat, have acquired the rudiments of faith, and now want to make a decision to turn our will, and our lives over to a Higher Power.
pp. 37-38
4) “Pain is never permanent.”-Saint Theresa of Avila