TOPICS 8 / 4 / 2025
1.DAILY REFLECTIONS – SEEDS OF FAITH
Faith, to be sure, is necessary, but faith alone can avail nothing. We can have faith, yet keep God out of our lives.
As a child I constantly questioned the existence of God. To a “scientific thinker” like me, no answer could withstand a thorough dissection, until a very patient woman finally said to me, “You must have faith.” With that simple statement, the seeds of my recovery were sown!
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 34
2.THE 12-STEP PROGRAM
I used to think alcohol was my problem. But when I put the bottle down, I was horrified to discover it had only been the painkiller. The real problem was me—my thoughts, my fears, my selfishness, and my inability to truly connect with others. The 12-Step program taught me that salvation doesn’t come from controlling life, but from letting go—from accepting that I’m not alone, that I don’t have to understand everything. I just need to be honest, take action, and trust God.
CLANCY I – AA Speaker
3.POTENTIAL
“Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.”
When I was drinking, I behaved like a child. I behaved not just like a child but “childish”. I was so dependent upon my alcohol, so addicted, that I never realized my potential in life. Today I have a spiritual program that offers me the world; it sets no limits on my horizons; it encourages me to discover my potential and live it. The education I have gained in my sobriety seems unending and unstoppable. Each day produces a new opportunity and a different experience.
Father Leos Daily Meditations
4.PRAYING FOR MY RESENTMENTS
If you have a resentment you want to be rid of, if you will pray for the person or the thing you resent, you will be free. If you will ask in prayer for everything you want for yourself to be given to them, you will be free. Ask for their health, their prosperity, their happiness, and you will be free. Even when you don’t really want it for them, and your prayers are only words and you don’t mean it, go ahead and do it anyway. Do it every day for two weeks and you will find you have come to mean it and to want it for them, and you will realize that where you used to feel bitterness and resentment and hatred, you now feel compassionate understanding and love.
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 552