Daily Reflections February 28 WHAT? NO PRESIDENT? When told that our Society has no president having authority to govern it, no treasurer who can compel the payment of any dues … our friends gasp and […]
Since September 5, 2015
Month: February 2024
February 27
Daily Reflections February 27 A UNIQUE STABILITY Where does A.A. get its direction? These practical folk then read Tradition Two, and learn that the sole authority in A.A. is a loving God as He may […]
February 26
Daily Reflections February 26 NO ORDINARY SUCCESS STORY A.A. is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress. AS BILL SEES […]
February 25
Daily Reflections February 25 THE CHALLENGE OF FAILURE In God’s economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is. AS BILL SEES IT, p. […]
February 24
Daily Reflections May 20 Daily Reflection February 24 A THANKFUL HEART “I try to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat […]
February 23
Daily Reflections February 23 MYSTERIOUS PARADOXES Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one’s old life as a condition for finding a new one. […]
February 22
Daily Reflections February 22 GUIDANCE … this means a belief in a Creator who is all power, justice, and love; a God who intends for me a purpose, a meaning, and a destiny to grow, […]
February 21
Daily Reflections February 21 I’M PART OF THE WHOLE At once, I became a part–if only a tiny part–of a cosmos … AS BILL SEES IT, p. 225 When I first came to A.A., I […]
February 20
Daily Reflections February 20 THE GIFT OF LAUGHTER At this juncture, his A.A. sponsor usually laughs. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 26 Before my recovery from alcoholism began, laughter was one of the most […]
February 19
Daily Reflections February 19 I’M NOT DIFFERENT In the beginning, it was four whole years before A.A. brought permanent sobriety to even one alcoholic woman. Like the “high bottoms, ” the women said they were […]