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Topics 5/30/25 💌

Daily Reflection 

1)The more A.A. sticks to its primary purpose, the greater will be its helpful influence everywhere.

-A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 109

Walk In Dry Places

2)As compulsive people, we’re urged to watch resentments carefully. These negative feelings can flare up out of nowhere and bring terrible destruction. This sensitivity in spotting our own resentments also makes us more aware of resentments in others— When this happens, we have no responsibility to point their resentment out to them. Our best approach is to deal with them as cordially as possible and to withdraw gracefully if their resentment is directed at us. This teaches us that resentment is a universal human problem— not just an affliction of alcoholics and other compulsive people.

While guarding against resentment in myself today, I’ll not be surprised or hurt when it appears in others. If it does, I will not feel hurt or surprised, knowing that it’s a human problem.

One Day At A Time

3)“A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, doing what he can to change things there.”

–Paule Marshallt

More Language Of Letting Go

 4)Set deadlines. Say when. Stop waiting for that perfect time. Be gentle with yourselves and others.

Too much waiting is a trap. Waiting, counting the days, months, years, waiting for someone or something outside of ourselves to make us happy and magically bring us what we want is a pit. If you fall into it, climb out. Some revelations, insights, and illuminations are received in a moment, a second. But the work of assimilating new ideas and translating them into lifestyle changes takes time.

God, help me let go of unrealistic expectations of how quickly I, or others, need to grow and change. Help me know that I have all the time I need.