Daily Reflections October 11 SELF–RESTRAINT Our first objective will be the development of self-restraint. -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 91 My drive to work provides me with an opportunity for self-examination.  One day while […]

Daily ReflectionsOctober 10 FIXING ME, NOT YOU If somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the wrong also.–TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 90 What a freedom I felt when this passage […]

Daily Reflections October 8 DAILY INVENTORY … and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 59 I was beginning to approach my new life of sobriety with unaccustomed enthusiasm. New friends were […]

Daily Reflections DAILY MONITORING Continued to take personal inventory. –TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 88 The spiritual axiom referred to in the Tenth Step–”every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there […]

Daily Reflections FACING OURSELVES . . . . and Fear says, “You dare not look!”TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 49 How often I avoided a task in my drinking days, just because it appeared […]

Daily Reflections October 5 YESTERDAY’S BAGGAGE For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept […]

Daily ReflectionsOctober 4 A NECESSARY PRUNING … we know that the pains of drinking had to come before sobriety, and emotional turmoil before serenity.-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 94 I love spending time in […]

Daily ReflectionsOctober 3 SERENITY AFTER THE STORM Someone who knew what he was talking about once remarked that pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress. How heartily we A.A.’s can agree with him.-TWELVE STEPS […]