TOPICS 2/17/2026
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) Some of us won’t believe in God, others can’t, and still others who do believe that God exists have no faith whatever He will perform this miracle.
-12 & 12, p. 25
AS BILL SEES IT
2) When a drunk has a terrific hangover because he drank heavily yesterday, he cannot live well today. But there is another kind of hangover which we all experience whether we are drinking or not. That is the emotional hangover, the direct result of yesterday‘s and sometimes today’s excesses of negative emotion – anger, fear, jealousy, and the like.
If we would live serenely today and tomorrow, we certainly need to eliminate these hangovers. This doesn’t mean we need to wander morbidly around in the past. It requires an admission and correction of errors – now.
-12 & 12, pp. 88-89
WALK IN DRY PLACES
3) Our true happiness comes from our Higher Power and the right combination of love and service. With the right attitude, we can actually be happy under many kinds of conditions and with all sorts of people. What, then, should we pray for? “Knowledge of God’s will for us, and the power to carry that out,” is a prayer that puts things in proper order. Seek to do God‘s will, and you will be utterly amazed at the results. After all, it is God‘s pleasure to give you good things.
4) “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
-Lao Tzu