TOPICS 1/29/2026
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends – this is an experience you must not miss. We know you will not want to miss it. Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright spot of our lives.
-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p, 89
AS BILL SEES IT
2) Let’s remember that alcoholics are not the only ones bedeviled by sick emotions. In many instances, we are really dealing with fellow sufferers, people whose woes we have increased. If we are about to ask for forgiveness for ourselves, why shouldn’t we start out by forgiving them, one and all?
TWELFTH TRADITION
3) We are sure that humility, expressed by anonymity, is the greatest safeguard that Alcoholics Anonymous can ever have.
-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 187
4) “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson