Daily Reflections November 20 “THY WILL, NOT MINE” … when making specific requests, it will be well to add to each one of them this qualification.” … if it be Thy will.” -TWELVE STEPS AND […]
Month: November 2024
November 19
Daily Reflections November 19 “I WAS SLIPPING FAST” We A.A.’s are active folk, enjoying the satisfactions of dealing with the realities of life, … So it isn’t surprising that we often tend to slight serious meditation and prayer […]
November 18
Daily Reflections November 18 A SAFETY NET Occasionally, we are seized with a rebellion so sickening that we simply won’t pray. When these things happen we should not think too ill of ourselves. We should […]
November 17
Daily ReflectionsNovember 17 OVERCOMING LONELINESS “Almost without exception, alcoholics are tortured by loneliness. Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the feeling that we […]
November 16
Daily Reflections November 16 A DAILY REPRIEVE What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85 Maintaining my spiritual condition is like working out […]
November 15
Daily ReflectionsNovember 15 VITAL SUSTENANCE “Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, sunshine. And for the same reason. […]
November 14
Daily ReflectionsNovember 14 INTUITION AND INSPIRATION “… we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. We relax and take it easy. We don’t struggle.”–ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 86 I invest my time in […]
November 13
Daily Reflections November 13 LOOKING OUTWARD “We ask especially for freedom from self-will and are careful to make no requests for ourselves only. We may ask for ourselves, however, if others will be helped. We […]
November 12
Daily Reflections November 12 MORNING THOUGHTS Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164 For many years I pondered over […]
November 11
Daily Reflections November 11 SELF-ACCEPTANCE “We know that God lovingly watches over us. We know that when we turn to Him, all will be well with us, here and hereafter.” -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, […]