TOPICS 6/14/2026
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) It is a design for living that works in rough going.
-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 15
When I came to AA, I realized that AA worked wonderfully to help keep me sober. But it could work on real life problems, not concerned with drinking? I had my doubts. After being sober for more than two years, I got my answer. I lost my job, developed physical problems, my diabetic father lost a leg, and someone I loved left me for another and all of this happened during a two-week period. Reality crashed in, yet AA was there to support, comfort, and strengthen me. The principles I had learned during my early days of sobriety became a main state of my life for not only did I come through, but I never stopped being able to help newcomers. AA taught me not to be overwhelmed, but rather to accept and understand my life as it unfolded.
KEEP IT SIMPLE
2) “Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once.”
-unknown
Time always seems to pass too slowly or too quickly for us. We want the fun times to last longer. We want the boring or painful times to go faster. But time goes at just the right pace. Any faster, and we wouldn’t have enough time to learn as we go. Any slower, and we’d lose interest. In our program, we learned to respect the pace of time. We let go, and we let time go at its own pace. We call this patience.
3) “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
-Joseph Campbell
WALK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG BOOK
4) If resentment is not relinquished entirely, it is not relinquished at all.