TOPICS 5/3/2026
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) Somehow, being alone with God, doesn’t seem as embarrassing this facing up to another person. Until we actually sit down and talk aloud about what we have so long hidden, our willingness to clean house is still largely theoretical.
-12 AND 12, p. 60
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 123
2) Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
KEEP IT SIMPLE
3) Everyone makes mistakes. We all know that. So why is it so hard to admit our own? We seem to think we have to be perfect. We have a hard time looking at our mistakes. But our mistakes can be very good teachers. Our Twelve Step program helps us learn and grow from our mistakes. In Step Four, half of our work is to think of our mistakes. In step five, we admit our mistakes to God ourselves in another person. We learned, we grow and become whole. All by coming to know our mistakes. The gift of recovery is not being free for mistakes. Instead, we do the Steps to claim our mistakes and talk about them. We find the gift of recovery when we learn from our mistakes.
4) “No matter what we have done, God always offers us a chance to begin anew. Knowing that God grants us a new beginning, we, too, can look at our parents, our children, our partner or our friends, anyone with whom we’ve had some distance, and say, “Let’s have a new beginning.” Love is greater than any of our mistakes.
-Mary Manin Morrissey