10 / 30 / 2025
1) LIVE AND LET LIVE
Do I remember that I have a right to my opinion but that others don’t have to share it? That’s the spirit of “Live and Let Live.” The Serenity Prayer reminds me, with God’s help, to “Accept the things I cannot change.” Am I still trying to change others? When it comes to “Courage to change the things I can,” do I remember that my opinions are mine, and yours are yours?
2) REAL FRIENDS
I have real friends where I had none before. My drinking companions could hardly be called my real friends, though when drunk we seemed to have the closest kind of friendship. My idea of friendship has changed. Friends are no longer people whom I can use for my own pleasure or profit. Friends are now people who understand me and I them, whom I can help and who can help me to live a better life.
3) TOUCHSTONES – Humility & Responsibility
All A.A. progress can be reckoned in terms of just two words: humility and responsibility. Our whole spiritual development can be accurately measured by our degree of adherence to these magnificent standards. Ever deepening humility, accompanied by an ever greater willingness to accept and act upon clear-cut obligations – these are truly our touchstones for all growth in the life of the spirit.
As Bill Sees it pg 271
4) STEP 4
Searching and Fearless Moral Inventory Of Ourselves – Ultimately, Step 4 can help people see the need to change themselves instead of blaming others and external events for their alcohol use and associated actions and behaviors.