Daily Reflections: A Book of Reflections by A.A. Members for A.A. Members

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We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength. You may be introduced to this tool during inpatient rehab where you have a consistent, recovery-focused daily schedule. There's no way to contact the owner on the app so all complaints go here (as if that actually stopped anyone before) I'd rather contact you there. Today, because of Alcoholics Anonymous, I now trust and rely on God, as I understand Him; I am sober today because of that! I realized that I had not turned my will and my life over to the care of God in the area of my compulsive overeating.

To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life.

Your journey to sobriety can be difficult enough without feeling as though you are being told contradictory things or feeling lost and uncertain of where to put your faith and trust.

When we fear facing new situations, or when familiar situations turn sour, we can look to that power for help in saying what needs to be said and for doing what needs to be done. A. Members or Daily Reflections is a complementary text that focuses on specific principles from the Big Book. I've been in the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous and worked the 12 step program for 18 months with a sponsor, and my life has completely changed for the better.Instead, gently do one thing each day to demonstrate that you’re willing to move forward with your life. The power of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing. It is a sign of spiritual health to be able to ask God every day to enlighten me, to recognize His will, and to have the strength to execute it. Patience is the most important asset we bring to this activity–the willingness to allow each step its own time and proper place.

And I believe that daily reflections can help guide you each day in your sobriety journey, which is key for preventing a relapse and just living a more scripted fuller life.

There are tons of materials out there on recovery, each providing similar, yet potentially different ways of moving through your journey. While focusing broadly on the Three Legacies of Recovery, Unity and Service, this volume offers experience, strength and hope on specific topics such as willingness, faith, making amends — themes that recovering alcoholics must address each day — and reminds us that we are never really alone in Alcoholics Anonymous. Groups have tried to expel members, but the banished have come back to sit in the meeting place, saying “This is life for us; you can’t keep us out.

Men are lonely and more vulnerable to addictions and codependency when they have no firm friendships with other men. When I am having a difficult time accepting people, places or events, I turn to this passage and it relieves me of many an underlying fear regarding others, or situations life presents me. Once I became sober, I began to see how wasteful my life had been and I experienced overwhelming guilt and feelings of regret. Prior to our marriage, when she was a shy, scrawny adolescent, I was able to see things in her that others couldn’t necessarily see–things like beauty, charm, gaiety, a gift for being easy to talk to, a sense of humor, and many other fine qualities. Building a new life isn’t easy, and it’s going to be different for everyone on their specific journey.

Now I see how even my most distasteful past experiences can turn to gold because, as a sober alcoholic, I can share them to help my fellow alcoholics, particularly newcomers. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. I ask God to help me share the gifts of sobriety so that its benefits may be shown to those I know and love. Sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, and sometimes in ways we’d least expect, each of the pictures we’d drawn on that wall began to materialize and manifest.