Thoughts For The Day~*~Principles ^*^*^ October 30
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~A.A.
Thoughts
For
The Day~
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Principles
"Experience shows that few alcoholics will long stay
away from a group just because they don't like the way it is run. Most
return and adjust themselves to whatever conditions they must. Some go to
a different group, or form a new one. In other words, once an alcoholic fully
realizes that he cannot get well alone, he will somehow find a way to get
well and stay well in the company of others."
Bill W., Letter,
1943
c.1967AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 312
Thought
to Consider . . .
It isn't difficult to make a mountain out of a
molehill - just add a little dirt.
H A L T = Honestly, Actively, Lovingly, Tolerant.
*~*^Just For Today!^*~*
Grim Routine
During this 17-year period [1918-1935], Dr. Bob had worked out a
grim routine that permitted him to drink and somehow still maintain his medical
practice. Careful never to go near the hospital while he was drinking, he would
stay sober until four o'clock in the afternoon. It was really a horrible
nightmare, this earning money, getting liquor, smuggling it home, getting drunk,
morning jitters, taking large doses of sedatives to make it possible for me to
earn more money, and so on ad nauseum, he wrote. I used to promise my
wife, my friends, and my children that I would drink no more - promises which
seldom kept me sober through the day, though I was very sincere when I made
them.
1984 AAWS Inc.
"PASS IT ON", page
140
LIVE AND LET LIVE
Never since it began has Alcoholics Anonymous been divided by a major controversial issue. Nor has our Fellowship ever publicly taken sides on any question in an embattled world. This, however, has been no earned virtue. It could almost be said that we were born with it. . . . "So long as we don't argue these matters privately, it's a cinch we never shall publicly."
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 176
Do I remember that I have a right to my opinion but that others don't have to share it? That's the spirit of "Live and Let Live." The Serenity Prayer reminds me, with God's help, to "Accept the things I cannot change." Am I still trying to change others? When it comes to "Courage to change the things I can," do I remember that my opinions are mine, and yours are yours? Am I still afraid to be me? When it comes to "Wisdom to know the difference," do I remember that my opinions come from my experience? If I have a know-it-all attitude, aren't I being deliberately controversial?
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
*~*^As Bill Sees It^*~*
Loving Advisers
Had I not been blessed with wise and loving advisers, I might have cracked up long ago. A doctor once saved me from death by alcoholism because he obliged me to face up to the deadliness of that malady. Another doctor, a psychiatrist, later on helped me save my sanity because he led me to ferret out some of my deep-lying defects. From a clergyman I acquired the truthful principles by which we A.A.'s now try to live. But these precious friends did far more than supply me with their professional skills. I learned that I could go to them with any problem whatever. Their wisdom and their integrity were mine for the asking. Many of my dearest A.A. friends have stood with me in exactly this same relation. Oftentimes they could help where others could not, simply because they were A.A.'s.
GRAPEVINE, AUGUST 1961
*~*^Big Book Quote^*~*
"The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have
lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called will power
becomes practically nonexistent. We are unable, at certain times, to
bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of
the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago. We
are without defense against the first drink."
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition
There Is A Solution, pg.
24
*^Twenty
Four
Hours A
Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
I have real friends where I had
none before. My drinking companions could hardly be called my real friends,
though when drunk we seemed to have the closest kind of friendship. My idea of
friendship has changed. Friends are no longer people whom I can use for my own
pleasure or profit. Friends are now people who understand me and I them, whom I
can help and who can help me to live a better life. I have learned not to hold
back and wait for friends to come to me, but to go halfway and to be met
halfway, openly and freely. Does friendship have a new meaning for
me?
Meditation for the
Day
There is a time for everything.
We should learn to wait patiently until the right time comes. Easy does it. We
waste our energies in trying to get things before we are ready to have them,
before we have earned the right to receive them. A great lesson we have to learn
is how to wait with patience. We can believe that all our life is a preparation
for something better to come when we have earned the right to it. We can believe
that God has a plan for our lives and that this plan will work out in the
fullness of time.
Prayer for the
Day
I pray that
I may learn the lesson of waiting patiently I pray that I may not expect things
until I have earned the right to have them.
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