Sacrifice = Unity = Survival
The Daily Reflection for June 30th is certainly one to take forward into July and even after that.
“The unity, the effectiveness, and even the survival of A.A. will always depend upon our continued willingness to give up some of our personal ambitions and desires for the common safety and welfare. Just as sacrifice means survival for the individual alcoholic, so does sacrifice mean unity and survival for the group and for A.A.’s entire fellowship.”
Making it a real challenge for me at this moment to quantify (wrong word, I know but) with this;
“Take away my difficulties, that …read more

My first thoughts subsequent to deciding on a title for this are…
For those profundity pushers who offer newcomers this phrase “do the right thing and the right thing will happen,” I want to say – for who? Because it is my experience that it is a matter of perspective whether this will hold true for you.
It might be that if you do the right thing, the right thing will happen – for someone else! The trap is coming to believe that if you do the right thing, the right thing will happen for you!
For ex., my biggest challenge personally – …read more

“The need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.”
Thank God Rick T. taught me one of life’s simple realities I had not learned, for whatever reason. He made the simple statement that each one of us has our own perception of reality. That your perception of reality and my perception of reality often would not match.
Since God graced me with sobriety I have been given many additional gifts. One of them is that my perception of reality has equality as its foundation. There are times when this gift turns to frustration …read more

And I’ll waver in and out of it, dammit, because I have basic human instincts…
As I do so often – from “The Language of the Heart” page 237-238 (I ought to set up a cot on these pages)
“My basic flaw had always been dependence – almost absolute dependence – on people or circumstances to supply me with prestige, security, and the like.”
It’s that “and the like” stuff that gets me! Bill doesn’t talk about love, affection, attention, a feeling of worthiness, a feeling of being needed, in this area. “And the like.” He does speak of depression, which I am …read more