TOPICS 3/16/2026
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea…”Why don’t you choose your own conception of God?” That statement hit me hard. It melted the icy intellectual mountain in whose shadow I had lived and shivered many years. I stood in the sunlight at last. It was only a matter of being willing to believe in a Power greater than myself. Nothing more was required of me to make my beginning.
AS BILL SEES IT
2) Hence, in this life, we shall attain nothing like perfect humility and love. So we shall have to settle, respecting most of our problems, for a very gradual progress, punctuated sometimes by heavy setbacks. Our old-time attitude of “all or nothing“ will have to be abandoned.
WALK IN DRY PLACES
3) The trouble with anger, though, is that it’s destructive. Once angry, we hurt ourselves, and we hurt others. Terrible things said in anger leave wounds that never heal, creating problems that lead to more anger. The AA program can show us that there is virtually no justification for anger, under any and all circumstances. If we sense it coming on, we have the choice of taking charge of our feelings. If we’re angry over others behavior, we can remember that anger might be a way of reacting, but it’s not necessary in our lives.
BIG BOOK QUOTE, p. 53
4) When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn’t. What was our choice to be?