TOPICS 12/27/2025
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) “Quite as important was the discovery that spiritual principles would solve all my problems.”
-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 42
DAYS OF HEALING DAYS OF JOY
2) It has often been said that the only thing you can get more of by giving it away is love. Step Twelve advises us, out of loving hearts and grateful spirits, to “grow our love by sharing it. “
POWER IN THE PAUSE
3) I was taught that if I were to make it here in AA and stay sober, my priorities had to be God, sobriety, and me first; then everything else! ANYTHING I put ahead of God, sobriety and myself, I would either lose or destroy
TOUCHSTONES MEDITATIONS FOR MEN
4) Try not to become someone of success. Rather become a person of value.
—Albert Einstein
It may be time and energy spent seeking power and glory at the cost of time with our family and friends. Sadly, external success leads to superficial pleasure but never to peace within ourselves.
However, when we pursue the values of honesty, humility, and service, we will find enduring self-respect and close friendships. This path provides a genuine experience of life’s greatest rewards rather than the glitter of passing excitement.