*^Daily Reflections^*
FORMING TRUE PARTNERSHIPS
But
it is from our twisted relations with family, friends, and society at
large that many of us have suffered the most. We have been especially
stupid and stubborn about them. The primary fact that we fail to
recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another
human being.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 53
Can
these words apply to me, am I still unable to form a true partnership
with another human being? What a terrible handicap that would be for me
to carry into my sober life! In my sobriety I will meditate and pray to
discover how I may be a trusted friend and companion.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
*~*^As Bill Sees It^*~*
Release and Joy
"Who
can render an account of all the miseries that once were ours, and who
can estimate the release and joy that the later years have brought to
us? Who can possibly tell the vast consequences of what God's work
through A.A. has already set in motion? And who can penetrate the deeper
mystery of our wholesale deliverance from slavery, a bondage to a most
hopeless and fatal obsession which for centuries possessed the minds and
bodies of men and women like ourselves?"
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"We think cheerfulness and laughter make for usefulness. Outsiders are sometimes
shocked when we burst into merriment over a seemingly tragic experience
out of the past. But why shouldn't we laugh? We have recovered, and
have helped others to recover. What greater cause could there be for
rejoicing than this?"
1. A.A. COMES OF AGE, PP. 44-45
2. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, P. 132
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