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 […]
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January 15
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 […]
January 14
Daily Reflections January 14 NO REGRETS We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.83 Once I became sober, I began to see how wasteful my life […]
January 13
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 […]
January 12
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 […]
January 11
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 […]
January 10
Daily Reflections January 10 UNITED WE STAND We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other […]
January 9
Daily Reflections January 9 AN ACT OF PROVIDENCE It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our minds into such an obsession for destructive drinking that only an act of […]
January 8
Daily Reflections January 8 DO I HAVE A CHOICE? The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called willpower becomes practically nonexistent. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, […]
January 7
Daily Reflections January 7 AT THE TURNING POINT Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection and care with complete abandon. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 59 Every day I […]