Category: Addiction
Daily Reflections March 30, 2012
EQUALITY MARCH 30, 2012 Our membership ought to include all who suffer from alcoholism. Hence we may refuse none who wish to recover. Nor ought A.A. membership ever depend upon money or conformity. Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a group, they have [...]
Daily Reflections March 29th, 2012
TRUSTED SERVANTS MARCH 29, 2012 They are servants. Theirs is the sometimes thankless privilege of doing the group’s chores. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 134 In Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis describes an encounter between his principle character and an old man busily at work planting a tree. “What is it that you are doing?” [...]
Daily Reflections March 28, 2012
A.A.’s FREEDOMS MARCH 28, 2012 We trust that we already know what our several freedoms truly are; that no future generation of AA’s will ever feel compelled to limit them. Our AA freedoms create the soil in which genuine love can grow. . . . LANGUAGE OF THE HEART, p. 303 I craved freedom. First, freedom [...]
Daily Reflections March 27, 2012
THE TEACHING IS NEVER OVER MARCH 27, 2012 Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to Him and to your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Give freely of what you find and join us. We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will [...]
Daily Reflections March 26, 2012
A FULL AND THANKFUL HEART MARCH 26, 2012 I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain certain conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion that we can ever know. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 37 I believe that [...]
