Daily Reflections

Daily Reflections – January 30

We are going to know a new freedom. . . . ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS, p. 83

Daily Reflections – January 28

Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now. Cling to the thought that, in God's hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have—the key to life and happiness for others. With it you can avert death and misery for them. ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS, p. 124

Daily Reflections – January 26

Who wishes to be rigorously honest and tolerant? Who wants to confess his faults to another and make restitution for harm done? Who cares anything about a Higher Power, let alone meditation and prayer? Who wants to sacrifice time and energy in trying to carry A.A. 's message to the next sufferer? No, the average alcoholic, self-centered in the extreme, doesn't care for this prospect—unless he has to do these things in order to stay alive himself. TWELVE AND TWELVE, p. 24

Daily Reflections – January 24

There is action and more action. "Faith without works is dead." . . . To be helpful is our only aim. ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS, pp. 88-89

Daily Reflections – January 22

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, "Remember, Bill, let's not louse this thing up. Let's keep it simple!" I turned away, unable to say a word. That was the last time I ever saw him. ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS COMES OF AGE, p. 214

Daily Reflections – January 20

As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action. ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS, p. 87

Daily Reflections – January 18

By going back in our own drinking histories, we could show that years before we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking even then was no mere habit, that it was indeed the beginning of a fatal progression. TWELVE AND TWELVE, p. 23

Daily Reflections – January 16

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 bottom. For practicing A. A. 's remaining eleven Steps means the adoption of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream of taking. TWELVE AND TWELVE, p. 24

Daily Reflections – January 14

We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS, p. 83

Daily Reflections – January 12

Daily Reflections – January 10

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 people, or presently may be, has to be smashed. ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS, p. 30

Daily Reflections – January 8

The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called will power becomes practically nonexistent. ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS, p. 24

Daily Reflections – January 6

We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength. Our admissions of personal powerlessness finally turn out to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built. TWELVE AND TWELVE, p. 21

Daily Reflections – January 4

We feel that elimination of our drinking is but a beginning. A much more important demonstration of our principles lies before us in our respective homes, occupations and affairs. ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS, p. 19