Daily Reflections July 1 THE BEST FOR TODAY The principles we have set down are guides to progress. -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 60 Just as a sculptor will use different tools to achieve desired effects in […]

Daily Reflections June 30 SACRIFICE = UNITY = SURVIVAL The unity, the effectiveness, and even the survival of A. A. will always depend upon our continued willingness to give up some of our personal ambitions […]

Daily Reflections June 29 A RIPPLING EFFECT Having learned to live so happily, we’d show everyone else how. Yes, we of A. A. did dream those dreams. How natural that was, since most alcoholics are […]

Daily Reflections June 28 THE DETERMINATION OF OUR FOUNDERS A year and six months later these three had succeeded with seven more. -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 159 If it had not been for the fierce determination […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]