TOPICS 12/20/2025
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) This is, indeed, the kind of giving that actually demands nothing. He does not expect his brother sufferer to pay him, or even to love him. And then he discovers that by the divine paradox of this kind of giving he has found his own reward, whether his brother has yet received anything or not.”
—TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 109
FORGIVING AND MOVING ON
2) Today I see that anxiety arises inside of me when I fear my own inner emptiness. Rather than being anxious about it, I will relax and let the emptiness just be there instead of resisting it.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
TWENTY- FOUR HOURS A DAY
3) When we were drinking, our lives were made up of a lot of scattered and unrelated pieces. We must pick up our lives and put them back together again. We do it by recovering a faith in a Divine Principle in the universe which holds us together and holds the whole universe together and gives it meaning and purpose. We surrender our disorganized lives to that Power, we get into harmony with the Divine Spirit, and our lives are made whole again.
SPIRITUAL AWAKENINGS Pg. 95
4) God is truth. I can find Him only through honesty, and the honesty begins with where I am as a human being. Sometimes, it has meant starting with honesty about my dishonesty.