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Procrastination
"After a preliminary trial at making amends, we may enjoy
such a sense of relief that we conclude our task is finished. We will want to
rest on our laurels. The temptation to skip the more humiliating and dreaded
meetings that still remain may be great. We may just procrastinate, telling
ourselves the time is not yet, when in reality we have already passed up many a
fine chance to right a serious wrong. Let's not talk prudence while practicing
evasion."
Twelve
Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 85
Thought to Consider . . .
Procrastination is really sloth in five
syllables.
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p.
67
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ISM = I
Sponsor Myself
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Generosity
From
"Thousands of Founders:"
"A.A. was not
invented! Its basics were brought to us through the experience and wisdom
of many great friends. We simply borrowed and adapted their
ideas. Thankfully, we have accepted the devoted services of many
nonalcoholics. We owe our very lives to the men and women of medicine and
religion. And, speaking or Dr. Bob and myself, I gratefully declare that
had it not been for our wives, Anne and Lois, neither of us could have lived to
see A.A.'s beginning."
c. 1967, As Bill Sees It,
page 67
*^Daily
Reflections^*
THE GOD IDEA
When
we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the Spirit of the
Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God. Our ideas did not work
But the God idea did.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 52
Like a blind man gradually being restored to sight, I
slowly groped my way to the Third Step. Having realized that only a Power
greater than myself could rescue me from the hopeless abyss I was in, I knew
that this was a Power that I had to grasp, and that it would be my anchor in the
midst of a sea of woes. Even though my faith at that time was minuscule,
it was big enough to make me see that it was time for me to discard my reliance
on my prideful ego and replace it with the steadying strength that could only
come from a Power far greater than myself.
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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES,
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