WSBC 2025: Daily Reflections Motion

Short Name: Daily Reflections

MAIN MOTION

The FA Literature Committee moves to adopt, Daily Reflections, as FA Conference-Approved literature.

CURRENT WORDING:

The FA WSI Standing Rules of Order (SRO) currently reads as follows:

2011 June: FA Conference-Approved Literature (revised from CEM 2009).

1. FA Conference Approved Literature includes only the following:

a. Twenty-Four Hours A Day (Hazelden).

b. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).

c. The Little Red Book (Hazelden).

d. The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (AA).

e. All FA pamphlets and books that have been approved by the World Service Conference, including both those in English and those translated into languages other than English.

PROPOSED WORDING:

2025 June: FA Conference-Approved Literature (revised from SRO 2011).

1. FA Conference Approved Literature includes only the following:

a. Twenty-Four Hours A Day (Hazelden).

b. Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.).

c. The Little Red Book (Hazelden).

d. The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (A.A.).

e. Daily Reflections (A.A.)

f. All FA pamphlets and books that have been approved by the World Service Conference, including both those in English and those translated into languages other than English.

RATIONALE

The purpose of this motion is to support the FA newcomer, and all members, by adopting non-religious literature that functions as a daily reader, while still being steeped in the Twelve Steps. By introducing A.A.’s Daily Reflections, we honor the spiritual diversity of our membership and ensure that our literature supports all who seek recovery, regardless of their religious belief. The Daily Reflections reader has been vetted and approved by A.A. and primarily borrows quotes and other language from the Big Book and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, publications we already use in FA.