Daily Reflections April 19 BROTHERS IN OUR DEFECTS We recovered alcoholics are not so much brothers in virtue as we are brothers in our defects, and in our common strivings to overcome them. –AS BILL […]

Daily Reflections April 18 SELF-HONESTY The deception of others is nearly always rooted in the deception of ourselves. When we are honest with another person, it confirms that we have been honest with ourselves and […]

Daily Reflections April 17 LOVE AND FEAR AS OPPOSITES “All these failings generate fear, a soul-sickness in its own right.” —TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 49 “Fear knocked at the door; faith answered; no […]

Daily Reflections April 15 THE BONDAGE OF RESENTMENTS … harboring resentment is infinitely grave. For then we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the spirit. –AS BILL SEES IT, p. 5 It has been […]

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. […]