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KEEPING OPTIMISM AFLOAT

November 2 – Daily Reflections

The other Steps can keep most of us sober and somehow functioning. But Step Eleven can keep us growing . . .   THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEART, p. 240

I CANNOT CHANGE THE WIND

November 1 – Daily Reflections

is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85

AVOIDING CONTROVERSY

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 31

All history affords us the spectacle of striving nations and groups finally torn asunder because they were designed for, or tempted into, controversy. Others fell apart because of sheer self-righteousness  while trying to enforce upon the rest of mankind some millennium of their own specification.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 176

LIVE AND LET LIVE

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 30

Never  since  it  began  has  Alcoholics  Anonymous  been divided by a major controversial issue. Nor has our Fellowship ever publicly taken sides on any question in an embattled world. This, however, has been no earned virtue. It could almost be said that we were born with it. . . . "So long as we don't argue these matters privately, it's a cinch we never shall publicly."   TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 176

OUR SURVIVAL

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 29

Since recovery from alcoholism is life itself to us, it is imperative that we preserve in full strength our means of survival.  TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 177

AN UNBROKEN TRADITION

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 28

We conceive the survival and spread of Alcoholics Anonymous to be something of far greater importance than the weight we could collectively throw back of any other cause.   TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 177

GLOBAL SHARING

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 27

The only thing that matters is that he is an alcoholic who has found a key to sobriety. These legacies of suffering and of recovery are easily passed among alcoholics, one to the other. This  is our gift from God,  and its bestowal  upon others like us is the one aim that today animates A. A. 's all around the globe.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 151

ONE ULTIMATE AUTHORITY

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 26

For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority— a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience.  TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 132

A.A.'s HEARTBEAT

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 25

Without unity, the heart of A.A. would cease to beat; . . .  AS BILL SEES IT, p. 125

"BY FAITH AND BY WORKS"

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 24

On anvils of experience, the structure of our Society was hammered out. . . . Thus has it been with A.A. By faith and by works we have been able to build upon the lessons of an incredible experience. They live today in the Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous, which—God willing—shall sustain us in unity for so long as He may need us.  TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 131

WHAT WE KNOW BEST

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 23

"Shoemaker, stick to thy last!" . . . better do one thing supremely well than many badly. That is the central theme of this Tradition [Five]. Around it our Society gathers in unity. The very life of our Fellowship requires the preservation of this principle.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 150

TRUE TOLERANCE

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 22

Finally,   we   begin   to   see   that   all   people,   including ourselves, are to some extent emotionally ill as well as frequently wrong and then we approach true tolerance and see what real love for our fellows actually means
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 92

NOTHING GROWS IN THE DARK

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 21

We will want the good that is in us all, even in the worst of us, to flower and to grow.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 10

SOLACE FOR CONFUSION

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 20

Obviously, the dilemma of the wanderer from faith is that of profound confusion. He thinks himself lost to the comfort of any conviction at all He cannot attain in even a small degree the assurance of the believer, the agnostic, or the atheist. He is the bewildered one.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 28

A.A'S "MAIN TAPROOT"

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 19

The principle that we shall find no enduring strength until we first admit complete defeat is the main taproot from which our whole Society has sprung and flowered.  TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 21-22

AN OPEN MIND

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 18

True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith, . . .  TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 33

A DAILY TUNE-UP

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 17

Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our activities. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85

THROUGHOUT EACH DAY

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 16

This is not an overnight matter. It should continue for our lifetime.  ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84

MY CHECKLIST, NOT YOURS

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 15

Gossip barbed with our anger, a polite form of murder by character  assassination,  has  its  satisfactions  for  us,  too. Here we are not trying to help those we criticize; we are trying to proclaim our own righteousness.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 67

A PROGRAM FOR LIVING

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 14

When we retire at night, we constructively review our day. . . . On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. . . . Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking,  especially asking that it be divorced from self- pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 86

UNREMITTING INVENTORIES

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 13

Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and  fear.  When  these  crop  up,  we ask  God  at  once  to remove them. We discuss them with someone immediately and make amends quickly if we have harmed anyone. Then we resolutely turn our thoughts to someone we can help.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84

CURBING RASHNESS

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 12

When we speak or act hastily or rashly, the ability to be fair-minded and tolerant evaporates on the spot.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 91

SELF-RESTRAINT

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 11

Our first objective will be the development of self-restraint.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 91

FIXING ME, NOT YOU

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 10

If somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the wrong also.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 90

A SPIRITUAL AXIOM

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 09

It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 90

DAILY INVENTORY

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 08

. . . and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 59

DAILY MONITORING

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 07
Continued to take personal inventory. . . .   TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 88

FACING OURSELVES

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 06
FACING OURSELVES . . . and Fear says, "You dare not look!"   TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 49

YESTERDAY'S BAGGAGE

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 05

For the wise have always known that no one can make much  of  his life until  self-searching  becomes  a  regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 88

A NECESSARY PRUNING

Daily Reflections - OCTOBER 04

. . . we know that the pains of drinking had to come before sobriety, and emotional turmoil before serenity.   TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 94

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