Keep it Simple <!--012226-->
Go often to the house of your friend: for weeds soon choke up the unused path. —Scandinavian proverb— Our program has two parts: the Steps, and the fellowship. Both keep us sober. We can’t stay sober if we go it alone. We need to work the Steps. We also need people—the help of our friends […]
Each Day a New Beginning <!--012226-->
One cannot have wisdom without living life. —Dorothy McCall— Living life means responding, wholly, to our joys and our pitfalls. It means not avoiding the experiences or activities that we fear we can’t handle. Only through our survival of them do we come to know who we really are; we come to understand the strength […]
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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 […]
AA Thought for the Day <!--012026-->
In A.A., we’re all through with lying, hangovers, remorse and wasted money. When we were drinking, we were only half alive. Now that we’re trying to live decent, honest, unselfish lives, we’re really alive. Life has a new meaning for us, so that we can really enjoy it. We feel that we’re some use in […]
Daily Reflections <!--012026-->
“WE PAUSE . . . AND ASK” As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.87 Today I humbly ask my Higher Power for the grace to find the space between my impulse and my action; to let flow a cooling […]
Each Day a New Beginning <!--012026-->
The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others. —Shirley MacLaine— Life is a process of letting go, letting go of conditions we can’t control, letting go of people–watching them move out of our lives, letting go of times, places, experiences. Leaving behind anyone or anyplace […]