TOPICS 6/26/2026
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) For most normal folks, drinking means, conviviality, companionship, and colorful imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good.
-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 151
The longer I chase these elusive feelings with alcohol, the more out of reach they were. However, by applying this passage to my sobriety, I found that it described the magnificent new life made available to me by the AA program. It “truly does get better” one day at a time. The warmth, the love and the joy so simply expressed in these words, grow in breadth and depth each time I read it. Sobriety is a gift that grows with time.
KEEP IT SIMPLE
2) “But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”
-Albert Camus
Sometimes we think we’re getting our lives together. Together with what? With ourselves. The 12 steps help us clean up the mess we’ve made. We’re fixing our mistakes. We’re looking at ourselves closely at what we believe, what we feel, what we like to do, who we are. We’re asking our Higher Power to help us do our best. No wonder our lives are coming together! No wonder we feel more peace, harmony, and happiness!
3) “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you, if you do not act upon them?”
-Buddha
4) Enjoy life while you’ve got the chance. Lord, may I view each day as a gift and a privilege. Knowing about God, and knowing God are very different things. Lord, may I recognize Your working in my life so that I may really know You.