Daily Reflection

OCTOBER 6
FACING OURSELVES . . . and Fear says,
"You dare not look!"
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 49
How often I avoided a task in my drinking days just
because it appeared so large! Is it any wonder, even if I
have been sober for some time, that I will act that same
way when faced with what appears to be a monumental
job, such as a searching and fearless moral inventory of
myself? What I discover after I have arrived at the other
side—when my inventory is completed—is that the illusion
was greater than the reality. The fear of facing myself kept
me at a standstill and, until I became willing to put pencil
to paper, I was arresting my growth based on an intangible.