Author: richieboo

June 27

Daily Reflections June 27 CONFORMING TO THE A. A. WAY We obey A. A. ’s Steps and Traditions because we really want them for ourselves. It is no longer a question of good or evil; […]

June 26

Daily Reflections June 26 A GIFT THAT GROWS WITH TIME For most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship and colorful imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous intimacy with friends […]

June 25

Daily Reflections June 25 A TWO-WAY STREET If we ask, God will certainly forgive our derelictions. But in no case does He render us white as snow and keep us that way without our cooperation. […]

June 24

Daily Reflections June 24 A SPIRITUAL KINDERGARTEN We are only operating a spiritual kindergarten in which people are enabled to get over drinking and find the grace to go on living to better effect. -AS […]

June 23

Daily Reflections June 23 TRUSTING OTHERS But does trust require that we be blind to other people’s motives or, indeed, to our own? Not at all; this would be folly. Most certainly, we should assess […]

June 22

Daily Reflections June 22 TODAY, I’M FREE This brought me to the good healthy realization that there were plenty of situations left in the world over which I had no personal power–that if I was […]

June 21

Daily Reflections June 21 FEAR AND FAITH The achievement of freedom from fear is a lifetime undertaking, one that can never be wholly completed. When under heavy attack, acute illness, or in other condition of […]

June 20

Daily Reflections June 20 RELEASE FROM FEAR The problem of resolving fear has two aspects. We shall have to try for all the freedom from fear that is possible for us to attain. Then we […]

June 19

Daily Reflections June 19 “A. A. REGENERATION” 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 […]

June 18

Daily Reflections June 18 A FELLOWSHIP OF FREEDOM … if only men were granted absolute liberty, and were compelled to obey no one, they would then voluntarily associate themselves in the common interest. -AS BILL […]