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DAILY REFLECTIONS
1)Let us resist the proud assumption that since God has enabled us to do well in one area we are destined to be a channel of saving grace for everybody.
-A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 232
AA groups have but one reason for being: to carry the message to the still-suffering alcoholic. The group exists so that the alcoholic can find a new way of life, a life abundant in happiness, joy, and freedom. Thus my sobriety, and our program’s survival, depend on my determination to put first things first.

AS BILL SEES IT
2) It was discovered that when one alcoholic had planted in the mind of another the true nature of his malady, that person could never be the same again. Following every spree, he would have to say to himself, “Maybe those A.A.’s were right.” After a few such experiences, often before the onset of
extreme difficulties, he would return to us convinced.
QUOTE FROM MELODY BEATTIE
Be gentle with yourself. Don’t force it. But don’t run away from your feelings, either. You might feel like cooked spaghetti for a while, but what’s really softening up is your heart. God, help me face and feel any feelings.
–Melody Beattie

FATHER LEO’S DAILY MEDITATION
3)“Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this — that you are dreadfully like other people.”
–James Russell Lowell
For many years I saw the differences and not the similarities. I was always considering how I was unlike other alcoholics, rather than perceiving the striking similarities. I kept myself on the outside, not only in recovery from alcoholism but also in life.
Then I heard from another recovering alcoholic not only “my story” but also my feelings. I belonged. I was with people who knew my loneliness, isolation, confusion, guilt and despair. I had come home to live amongst my people.

HOUR TO HOUR BOOK
4) Abstinence, honesty, and the willingness ‘to turn it over’ are the only ways to fight the Four Horsemen of mind-affecting chemicals: Terror, Bewilderment, Frustration, and Despair. Let me understand that the battle is no longer mine if I practice the Third Step to the best of my ability.

Let me understand that the battle is no longer mine if I practice the Third Step