Daily Reflections

Daily reflections - March 11

It is when we try to make our will conform with God's that we begin to use it rightly. To all of us, this was a most wonderful revelation. Our whole trouble had been the misuse of willpower. We had tried to bombard our problems with it instead of attempting to bring it into agreement with God's intention for us. To make this increasingly possible is the purpose of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, and Step Three opens the door. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 40

Daily reflections - March 9

Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 34

Daily reflections - March 7

Once we have placed the key of willingness in the lock and have the door ever so slightly open, we find that we can always open it some more. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 35

Daily reflections - March 5

"But just how, in these circumstances, does a fellow 'take it easy?' That's what I want to know." TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 26

 Daily reflections - March 3

So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example  of  self-will  run  riot,  though  he usually  doesn't think so. Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness. Wemust, or it kills us!

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 62

Daily reflections - March 1

It works—it really does. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 88

Daily reflections - February 27

Where does A.A. get its direction? . . . These practical folk then read Tradition Two, and learn that the sole authority in A.A. is a loving God as He may express Himself in the group conscience. . . . The elder statesman is the one who sees the wisdom of the group's decision, who holds no resentment over his reduced status, whose judgment, fortified by considerable experience, is sound, and who is willing to sit quietly on the sidelines patiently awaiting developments TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 132, 135

Daily reflections - February 25

In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 31

Daily reflections - February 23

Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one's old life as a condition for finding a new one.

A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 46

Daily reflections - February 21

At once, I became a part—if only a tiny part—of a cosmos.

. . . AS BILL SEES IT, p. 225

When I first came to A.A., I decided that "they" were very nice people—perhaps a little naive, a little too friendly, but basically decent, earnest people (with whom I had nothing in common). I saw "them" at meetings—after all, that was where "they" existed. I shook hands with "them" and, when I went out the door, I forgot about "them."

Daily reflections - February 19

 Daily reflections - February 15

Are these extravagant  promises?  We think not  They  are being fulfilled among us—sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84

Daily reflections - February 13

To the intellectually self-sufficient man or woman, many A. A.'s can say, "Yes, we were like you—far too smart for our own good. . . . Secretly, we felt we could float above the rest of the folks on our brain power alone."

AS BILL SEES IT, p. 60