Daily Reflections January 20 “WE PAUSE … AND ASK” As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.87 Today I humbly […]

Daily Reflections January 19 ROUND-THE-CLOCK FAITH Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.16 The essence of my spiritually, and my sobriety, rests on a […]

Daily Reflections January 18 WOULD A DRINK HELP? By going back in our drinking histories, we could show that years before we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking even then was […]

Daily Reflections January 17 HAPPINESS COMES QUIETLY “The trouble with us alcoholics was this: We demanded that the world give us happiness and peace of mind in just the particular order we wanted to get […]

Daily Reflections January 16 HITTING BOTTOM Why all this insistence that every A.A. must hit bottom first? The answer is that few people will sincerely try to practice the A.A. program unless they have hit […]

Daily Reflections January 15 AN UNSUSPECTED INNER RESOURCE With few exceptions our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they presently identify with their own conception of a Power greater than […]

Daily Reflections January 13 IT DOESN’T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT “We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.” —ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85 The […]

Daily Reflections January 12 ACCEPTING OUR PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES Our very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, and the people about us as they are. This is […]

Daily Reflections January 11 THE 100% STEP “Only Step One, where we made the 100% admission we were powerless over alcohol, can be practiced with absolute perfection.” —TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 68 Long […]