Jun 26 Alcoholics Anonymous Daily Reflection: A GIFT THAT GROWS WITH TIME. 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) #sober #hope #recovery #12steps

Jun 25 Alcoholics Anonymous Daily Reflection: A TWO-WAY STREET. 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) #sober #hope #recovery #12steps

Jun 24 Alcoholics Anonymous Daily Reflection: A SPIRITUAL KINDERGARTEN. 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) #sober #hope #recovery #12steps

Jun 23 Alcoholics Anonymous Daily Reflection: TRUSTING OTHERS. 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) #sober #hope #recovery #12steps

Jun 22 Alcoholics Anonymous Daily Reflection: TODAY, I’M FREE. 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 I must 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) #sober #hope #recovery #12steps

Jun 21 Alcoholics Anonymous Daily Reflection: FEAR AND FAITH. 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 condition of insecurity, we shall all react 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) #sober #hope #recovery #12steps

Jun 20 Alcoholics Anonymous Daily Reflection: RELEASE FROM FEAR. 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) #sober #hope #recovery #12steps

Jun 19 Alcoholics Anonymous Daily Reflection: “A.A. REGENERATION”. 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) #sober #hope #recovery #12steps

Jun 18 Alcoholics Anonymous Daily Reflection: A FELLOWSHIP OF FREEDOM. … 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) #sober #hope #recovery #12steps

Jun 17 Alcoholics Anonymous Daily Reflection: “DEEP DOWN WITHIN US”. 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) #sober #hope #recovery #12steps

Jun 16 Alcoholics Anonymous Daily Reflection: OPEN-MINDEDNESS. 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) #sober #hope #recovery #12steps

Jun 15 Alcoholics Anonymous Daily Reflection: MAKING A. A. YOUR HIGHER POWER. 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) #sober #hope #recovery #12steps

Jun 14 Alcoholics Anonymous Daily Reflection: WHEN THE GOING GETS ROUGH. It is a design for living that works in rough going. (ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 15) #sober #hope #recovery #12steps

Jun 13 Alcoholics Anonymous Daily Reflection: LIVING OUR AMENDS. Years of living with an alcoholic is almost sure to make any wife or child neurotic. The entire family is to some extent, ill. (ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 122) #sober #hope #recovery #12steps

Jun 12 Alcoholics Anonymous Daily Reflection: FORMING TRUE PARTNERSHIPS. But it is from our twisted relations with family, friends, and society at large that many of us have suffered the most. We have been especially stupid and stubborn about them. The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another human being. (TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 53) #sober #hope #recovery #12steps

Jun 11 Alcoholics Anonymous Daily Reflection: FAMILY OBLIGATIONS. … a spiritual life which does not include … family obligations may not be so perfect after all. (ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 129) #sober #hope #recovery #12steps

Jun 10 Alcoholics Anonymous Daily Reflection: IMPATIENT? TRY LEVITATING. We reacted more strongly to frustrations than normal people. (AS BILL SEES IT, p. 111) #sober #hope #recovery #12steps

Jun 9 Alcoholics Anonymous Daily Reflection: LIVING IN THE NOW. First, we try living in the now just in order to stay sober -- and it works. Once the idea has become a part of our thinking, we find that living life in 24 hour segments is an effective and satisfying way to handle many other matters as well. (LIVING SOBER, p. 7) #sober #hope #recovery #12steps

Jun 8 Alcoholics Anonymous Daily Reflection: OPENING UP TO CHANGE. Self-searching is the means by which we bring new vision, action, and grace to bear upon the dark and negative side of our natures. With it comes the development of that kind of humility that makes it possible for us to receive God's help. … we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life -- the one that did not work -- for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever. (AS BILL SEES IT, pp. 10, 8) #sober #hope #recovery #12steps

Jun 7 Alcoholics Anonymous Daily Reflection: LONG-TERM HOPE. Since most of us are born with an abundance of natural desires, it isn't strange that we often let these far exceed their intended purpose. When they drive us blindly, or we willfully demand that they supply us with more satisfactions or pleasures than are possible or due us, that is the point at which we depart from the degree of perfection that God wishes for us here on earth. That is the measure of our character defects, or, if you wish, of our sins. (TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 65) #sober #hope #recovery #12steps