Daily ReflectionsOctober 15 MY CHECKLIST, NOT YOURS “Gossip barbed with our anger, a polite form of murder by character assassination, has its satisfactions for us, too. Here we are not trying to help those we […]

Daily ReflectionsOctober 14 A PROGRAM FOR LIVING “When we retire at night, we constructively review our day. On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. Before we begin, we ask God to direct […]

Daily Reflections October 13 UNREMITTING INVENTORIES Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear. When these crop up, we ask God at once to remove them. We discuss them with someone immediately and make […]

Daily Reflections October 12 CURBING RASHNESS When we speak or act hastily or rashly, the ability to be fair-minded and tolerant evaporates on the spot. -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 91 Being fair-minded and […]

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 […]