Daily Reflections April 14 THE “NUMBER ONE OFFENDER” Resentment is the “number one” offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only […]

Daily Reflections April 13 THE FALSE COMFORT OF SELF-PITY Self-pity is one of the most unhappy and consuming defects that we know. It is a bar to all spiritual progress and can cut off all […]

Daily Reflections April 12 GIVING UP INSANITY … where alcohol has been involved, we have been strangely insane. –ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 38 Alcoholism required me to drink, whether I wanted to or not. Insanity dominated […]

Daily Reflections April 11 A WORD TO DROP: “BLAME” To see how erratic emotions victimized us often took a long time. We could perceive them quickly in others, but only slowly in ourselves. First of […]

Daily Reflections April 10 GROWING UP The essence of all growth is a willingness to change for the better and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails. –AS BILL SEES IT, p. […]

Daily Reflections April 9 FREEDOM FROM “KING ALCOHOL” When drinking, I lived in spiritual, emotional, and sometimes, physical confinement. I had constructed my prison with bars of self-will and self-indulgence, from which I could not […]

Daily Reflections April 8 AN INSIDE LOOK We want to find exactly how, when, and where our natural desires have warped us. We wish to look squarely at the unhappiness this has caused others and […]

Daily Reflections April 6 A LIFETIME PROCESS We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn’t control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn’t make a living, we had […]