TOPICS 4/28/2026
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) Few people will sincerely try to practice the AA program unless they have “hit bottom,” for practicing A.A.’s Steps means the adoption of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream of taking. The average alcoholic, self-centered in the extreme, doesn’t care for this prospect – unless he has to do these things in order to stay alive himself.
-12 AND 12, p. 24
KEEP IT SIMPLE
2) Before recovery, we saw only a blurry picture of ourselves, like we were looking through an out-of-focus camera lens. We couldn’t see the good in ourselves because we wouldn’t look close enough. Step Four helps us look more closely. We see a picture of ourselves, with our good points and our faults. We don’t like everything we see. But we can’t change until we accept ourselves as we are. Then we can start getting ready to change.
3) “Only God can make us whole.”
-Barbara Haynes
FATHER LEO
4) Prejudice, divides people, and feeds upon anger, resentment, and fear. Today I can see that my prejudice’s stemmed from my singing and others what I dislike to myself. I hated people who appeared “weak” because I knew that I was weak and vulnerable. I hated people who were “different“ because I knew there were parts of me that were different from how I appeared. I hated the people who stood up for their principles and talked about their feelings because, as a drunk, I never really had any principles and I couldn’t get in touch with my feelings. Today I try to talk about my prejudice’s and overcome them. A knowledge of those people I dislike has proven useful in slowly overcoming my prejudice.