October 21, 2004


Daily Reflections

NOTHING GROWS IN THE DARK

We will want the good that is in us all, even in the worst of us, to
flower and to grow.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 10

With the self-discipline and insight gained from practicing Step
Ten, I begin to know the
gratifications of sobriety -- not as mere abstinence from alcohol,
but as recovery in every
department of my life.
I renew hope, regenerate faith, and regain the dignity of
self-respect. I discover the word
"and" in the phrase "and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it."
Reassured that I am no longer always wrong, I learn to accept myself
as I am, with a new
sense of the miracles of sobriety and serenity.

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