Daily Reflections April 7 A WIDE ARC OF GRATITUDE And, speaking for Dr. Bob and myself, I gratefully declare that had it not been for our wives, Anne and Lois, neither of us could have […]
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Since September 5, 2015
April 6
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 […]
April 5
Daily Reflections April 5 TRUE BROTHERHOOD We have not once sought to be one in a family, to be a friend among friends, to be a worker among workers, to be a useful member of […]
April 4
Daily Reflections April 4 CRYING FOR THE MOON “This very real feeling of inferiority is magnified by his childish sensitivity and it is this state of affairs which generates in him that insatiable, abnormal craving […]
April 3
Daily Reflections April 3 ACCEPTING OUR HUMANNESS We finally saw that the inventory should be ours, not the other man’s. So we admitted our wrongs honestly and became willing to set these matters straight. –AS […]
April 2
Daily Reflections April 2 CHARACTER BUILDING Demands made upon other people for too much attention, protection, and love can only invite domination or revulsion … –TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 44 When I uncovered […]
April 1
Daily Reflections April 1 LOOKING WITHIN Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. -TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 42 Step Four is the vigorous and painstaking effort to discover what the liabilities […]
March 31
Daily Reflections March 31 NO ONE DENIED ME LOVE On the A.A. calendar it was Year Two … A newcomer appeared at one of these groups … He soon proved that his was a desperate […]
March 30
Daily Reflections March 30 OUR GROUP CONSCIENCE ” … sometimes the good is the enemy of the best.” –ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS COMES OF AGE, p. 101 Twenty-Four Hours A Day March 30 A.A. Thought for the […]
March 29
Daily Reflections March 29 TRUSTED SERVANTS They are servants. Theirs is the sometimes thankless privilege of doing the group’s chores. –TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 134 In Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis describes an […]