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HUMILITY IS A GIFT

Daily Reflections - July 13

As long as we placed self-reliance first, a genuine reliance upon a Higher Power was out of the question. That basic ingredient of all humility, a desire to seek and do God's will, was missing. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 72

GIVING UP CENTER STAGE

Daily Reflections - July 12

For without some degree of humility, no alcoholic can stay sober at all . . . Without it, they cannot live to much useful purpose, or, in adversity, be able to summon the faith that can meet any emergency. TWELVE AND TWELVE, p. 70

A TURNING POINT

Daily Reflections - July 11

A great turning point in our lives came when we sought for humility as something we really wanted, rather than as something we must have. TWELVE AND TWELVE, p. 75

TOWARD PEACE AND SERENITY

Daily Reflections - July 10

. . . when we have taken a square look at some of these defects, have discussed them with another, and have become willing to have them removed, our thinking about humility commences to have a wider meaning. TWELVE AND TWELVE, p. 74

I AM AN INSTRUMENT

Daily Reflections - July 9

Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 70

AN EVER-GROWING FREEDOM

Daily Reflections July 8

The Seventh Step is where we make the change in our attitude which permits us, with humility as our guide, to move out from ourselves toward others and toward God. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 76

. . . AND LETTING GO OF IT

Daily Reflections - July 7

. . . primarily fear that we would lose something we already possessed or would fail to get something we demanded. Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore, no peace was to be had unless we could find a means of reducing these demands The difference between a demand and a simple request is plain to anyone. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 76

IDENTIFYING FEAR . . .

Daily Reflections - July 6

The chief activator of our defects has been self-centered fear. . . . TWELVE AND TWELVE, p. 76

A NEW DIRECTION

Daily Reflections - July 5

Our human resources, as marshaled by the will, were not sufficient; they failed utterly. . . . Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all our activities. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pp. 45, 85

A NATURAL FAITH

Daily Reflections - July 4
. . . deep down in every man, woman and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other  it  is  there.  For  faith  in  a  Power  greater  than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself. ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS, p. 55

EXPERIENCE: THE BEST TEACHER

Daily Reflections - July 3

Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times. ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS, p. 87

THE HEART OF TRUE SOBRIETY

Daily Reflections - July 2

We find that no one need have difficulty with the spirituality of the program. Willingness, honesty and open-mindedness are the essentials of recovery. But these are indispensable. ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS, p. 570

THE BEST FOR TODAY

Daily Reflections - July 1

The principles we have set down are guides to progress

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 60

 

SACRIFICE = UNITY = SURVIVAL

Daily Reflections - June 30

The unity, the effectiveness, and even the survival of A.A. will always depend upon our continued willingness to give up some of our personal ambitions and desires for the common safety and welfare. Just as sacrifice means survival for the individual alcoholic, so does sacrifice mean unity and survival for the group and for A.A. 's entire Fellowship. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 220

A RIPPLING EFFECT

Daily Reflections - June 29

Having learned to live so happily, we'd show everyone else how. . . . Yes, we of A.A. did dream those dreams. How natural that was, since most alcoholics are bankrupt idealists. . . . So why shouldn't we share our way of life with everyone? TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 156

THE DETERMINATION OF OUR FOUNDERS

Daily Reflections - June 28

A year and six months later these three had succeeded with seven more. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 159

CONFORMING TO THE A.A. WAY

Daily Reflections - June 27

We obey A.A. 's Steps and Traditions because we really want them for ourselves. It is no longer a question of good or evil; we conform because we genuinely want to conform Such is our process of growth in unity and function. Such is the evidence of God's grace and love among us. A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 106

A GIFT THAT GROWS WITH TIME

Daily Reflections - June 26

For most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship and colorful imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 151

A TWO-WAY STREET

Daily Reflections - June 25

If we ask, God will certainly forgive our derelictions. But in no case does He render us white as snow and keep us that way without our cooperation. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 65

A SPIRITUAL KINDERGARTEN

Daily Reflections - June 24

We are only operating a spiritual kindergarten in which people are enabled to get over drinking and find the grace to go on living to better effect AS BILL SEES IT, p. 95

TRUSTING OTHERS

Daily Reflections - June 23

But does trust require that we be blind to other people's motives or, indeed, to our own? Not at all; this would be folly. Most certainly, we should assess the capacity for harm as well as the capability for good in every person that we would trust. Such a private inventory can reveal the degree of confidence we should extend in any given situation. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 144

TODAY, I'M FREE

Daily Reflections – June 22

This brought me to the good healthy realization that there were plenty of situations left in the world over which I had no personal power—that if I was so ready to admit that to be the case with alcohol, so Imust make the same admission with respect to much else. I would have to be still and know that He, not I, was God.

AS BILL SEES IT, p. 114

 

Daily Reflections – June 21

Daily Reflections – June 21

The   achievement of freedom from fear is a lifetime undertaking, one that can never be wholly completed. When under heavy attack, acute illness, or in other conditions of serious insecurity, we shall all act to this emotion—well or badly, as the case may be. Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.

AS BILL SEES IT, p. 263

 

RELEASE FROM FEAR

Daily Reflections – June 20

The problem of resolving fear has two aspects. We shall have to try for all the freedom from fear that is possible for us to attain. Then we shall need to find both the courage and  grace  to  deal  constructively  with  whatever  fears remain.

AS BILL SEES IT, p. 61

 

"A.A. REGENERATION"

Daily Reflections – June 19

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

 

A FELLOWSHIP OF FREEDOM

Daily Reflections – June 18

. . . if only men were granted absolute liberty, and were compelled to obey no one, they would then voluntarily associate themselves in the common interest

AS BILL SEES IT, p. 50

 

"DEEP DOWN WITHIN US"

Daily Reflections – June 17

We found the Great Reality deep down within us. In the last analysis it is only there that He may be found. . . . search diligently within yourself. . . . With this attitude you cannot fail. The consciousness of your belief is sure to come to you. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 55

OPEN-MINDEDNESS

Daily Reflections - June 16

We have found that God does not make too hard terms with those who seek Him. To us, the realm of spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive, never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek. It is open, we believe, to all men.

AS BILL SEES IT, p. 7

 

MAKING A.A. YOUR HIGHER POWER

Daily Reflections - June 15

". . . You can . . . make A.A. itself  your 'higher power.' Here's a very large group of people who have solved their alcohol problem. . . . many members . . . have crossed the threshold just this way. . . . their faith broadened and deepened.  .  .  .  transformed,  they  came  to  believe  in  a Higher Power. . . . "

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 27-28

 

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