Daily Reflections January 24 GETTING INVOLVED There is action and more action. “Faith without works is dead.” … To be helpful is our only aim. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS , pp. 88-89 I understand that service is […]
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Since September 5, 2015
January 23
Daily Reflections January 23 HAVING FUN YET? . . . we aren’t a glum lot. If newcomers could see no joy or fun in our existence, they wouldn’t want it. We absolutely insist on enjoying […]
January 22
Daily Reflections January 22 “LET’S KEEP IT SIMPLE” A few hours later I took my leave of Dr. Bob. . . The wonderful, old, broad smile was on his face as he said almost jokingly, […]
January 21
Daily Reflections January 21 SERVING MY BROTHER The member talks to the newcomer not in a spirit of power but in a spirit of humility and weakness. —ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS COMES OF AGE p. 279 As […]
January 20
Daily Reflections January 20 “WE PAUSE … AND ASK” As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.87 Today I humbly […]
January 19
Daily Reflections January 19 ROUND-THE-CLOCK FAITH Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.16 The essence of my spiritually, and my sobriety, rests on a […]
January 18
Daily Reflections January 18 WOULD A DRINK HELP? By going back in our drinking histories, we could show that years before we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking even then was […]
January 17
Daily Reflections January 17 HAPPINESS COMES QUIETLY “The trouble with us alcoholics was this: We demanded that the world give us happiness and peace of mind in just the particular order we wanted to get […]
January 16
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 […]
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 […]