Daily Reflections December 18 HONESTY WITH NEWCOMERS “Tell him exactly what happened to you. Stress the spiritual feature freely.” —ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 93 The marvel of A.A. is that I tell only what happened to […]

Daily Reflections December 17 A PRICELESS REWARD ” … work with other alcoholics … It works when other activities fail.” —ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 89 “Life will take on a new meaning,” as the Big Book […]

Daily Reflections December 16 PARTNERS IN RECOVERY ” … nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics … Both you and the new man must walk day by day […]

Daily Reflections December 15 DOING ANYTHING TO HELP Offer him [the alcoholic] friendship and fellowship. Tell him that if he wants to get well you will do anything to help. -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 95 I […]

Daily Reflections December 14 REACHING OUT Never talk down to an alcoholic from any moral or spiritual hilltop; simply lay out the kit of spiritual tools for his inspection. Show him how they worked with […]

Daily Reflections December 13 THINKING OF OTHERS Our very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon our constant thought of others and how we may help meet their needs. -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 20 Thinking of others […]

Daily Reflections December 12 A COMMON SOLUTION The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a common solution. We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree, and […]

Daily Reflections December 11 A GENUINE HUMILITY … we are actually to practice a genuine humility. This is to the end that our great blessings may never spoil us; that we shall forever live in […]

Daily Reflections December 10 CARRYING THE MESSAGE To renounce the alcoholic world is not to abandon it, but to act upon principles I have come to love and cherish, and to restore in others who […]