Topics 5/13/25 ❤️🩹
1)Daily Reflection
THE EASIER, SOFTER WAY
If we skip this vital step, we may not overcome drinking.
-Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 72
I certainly didn’t leap at the opportunity to face who I was, especially when the pains of my drinking days hung over me like a dark cloud. The easier, softer way is to take these Steps to freedom from our fatal disease, and to put our faith in the Fellowship and our Higher Power.
2)KEEP IT SIMPLE
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
-Harry Emerson Fosdick
Hate is like an illness. It steals our hope, our love, our relationships. Hate puts distance between people. Hate can give us a false sense of power. Hate doesn’t let us connect with our Higher Power.
Ours is a program of love and respect. We’re taught that if someone treats us wrong, we still should be respectful in our response.
3) WALK IN DRY PLACES
Blame-placing does nothing constructive, it really serves only to reinforce our bitterness and resentment, thus assuring that more of the same “injustices” will come to us.
It often turns out that they’ve also been victims of cruelty or neglect. Our goal, as people committed to a spiritual way of life, is to rise above all blame placing while striving for improvement in our own treatment of others.
4)A DAY AT A TIME
When a person stumbles through the day in a pit of despair, wishing to die, but refusing to die; when a person gets up the next day and does it all over again — well, that takes guts. That takes a kind of real, basic survival courage, a courage that can be put to good use if that person even finds his or her way to The Program. That person has learned courage the hard way, and when that person comes to The Program, he or she will find new and beautiful ways to use it. Have I have the courage to keep trying, one day at a time?