Keep it Simple <!--012126-->
What is defeat?…Nothing but the first step to something better. ––Wendell Phillips— A man walks into a meeting. He says,” I surrender. I can’t drink like other folks.” We smile and welcome him. We know that feeling. All of us in the program must admit defeat. Our illness is more powerful than we are. We […]
Promise of a new Day <!--012126-->
Let me listen to me and not to them. —Gertrude Stein— Our ears would fill with advice, if we listened to it: advertisers, evangelists, publishers, educators, all clamoring to market their products, try to get us to conform to their notions of what we should be. One of the dangers of a democratic society is […]
AA Thought for the Day <!--012126-->
To grasp the A.A. program, we have to think things out. Saint Paul said: “They are transformed by the renewing of their minds.” We have to learn to think straight. We have to change from alcoholic thinking to sober thinking. We must build up a new way of looking at things. Before we came into […]
Each Day a New Beginning <!--012126-->
Too many activities, and people, and things. Too many worthy activities, valuable things, and interesting people. For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well. —Anne Morrow Lindbergh— We need interaction with others, and we need activities. We have many gifts to offer those who cross our paths, […]
Daily Reflections <!--012126-->
SERVING MY BROTHER The member talks to the newcomer not in a spirit of power but in a spirit of humility and weakness. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS COMES OF AGE p. 279 As the days pass in A.A., I ask God to guide my thoughts and the words that I speak. In this labor of continuous participation […]