Daily Reflections September 27 WITHOUT RESERVATION When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love. -AS BILL SEES IT, p.37 While practicing service to others, if my successes give rise to grandiosity, […]
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September 26
Daily Reflections September 26 OUR CHILDREN The alcoholic may find it hard to re-establish friendly relations with his children. In time they will see that he is a new man and in their own way […]
September 25
Daily Reflections September 25 FIRST THINGS FIRST Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job — wife or no wife — we simply do not stop drinking […]
September 24
DAILY REFLECTIONS SEPTEMBER 24 VIGILANCE We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: “Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic.” Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as […]
September 23
Daily Reflections September 23 “I WAS AN EXCEPTION” He [Bill W.] said to me, gently and simply, “Do you think that you are one of us?” -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 413 During my drinking life I […]
September 22
Daily Reflections September 22 A “LIMITLESS LODE” Like a gaunt prospector, belt drawn in over the last ounce of food, our pick struck gold. Joy at our release from a lifetime of frustration knew no […]
September 21
Daily Reflections September 21 THE LAST PROMISE We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. -ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84 The last Promise in the Big Book […]
September 20
Daily Reflections September 20 H.P. AS GUIDE See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others. This is the Great Fact for […]
September 19
Hump day. Asked Johnny to come to Tansboro last Sunday of this month to give me my coin. Got to the Cherry Hill meeting at noon, at the Unitarian church. Felt I needed it, and […]
September 18
Daily Reflections September 18 LOVED BACK TO RECOVERY Our whole treasured philosophy of self-sufficiency had to be cast aside. This had not been done with old-fashioned willpower; it was instead a matter of developing the […]