AA Thought for the Day <!--011626-->
The A.A. program is more a way of building a new life than just a way of getting over drinking, because in A.A. we don’t just stop drinking. We did that plenty of times in the old days when we went “on the wagon.” And, of course, we always started to drink again, because we […]
Promise of a new Day <!--011626-->
We are partakers of a common nature, and the same causes that contribute to the benefit of one contribute to the benefit of another. —William Godwin— Ecology, the study of how all life fits together, has an emotional dimension. We all know people who are emotional polluters. Bullies, gossips, or self-pitiers spread a noxious influence; […]
Each Day a New Beginning <!--011626--->
I feel we have picked each other from the crowd as fellow-travelers, for neither of us is to the other’s personality the end-all and the be-all. —Joanna Field— We must look around at the people in our lives today, and know that we have something special to offer each of them, and they to us. […]
Daily Reflections <!--011626-->
HITTING BOTTOM 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 […]