~A.A.
Thoughts For
The Day~
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Carry the Message
Taking advantage of technological advances, A.A.
members with computers can participate in meetings online, sharing with
fellow alcoholics across the country or around the world. Fundamentally,
though, the difference between an electronic meeting and the home group
around the corner is only one of format. In any meeting, anywhere,
A.A.'s share experience, strength, and hope with each other, in order to
stay sober and help other alcoholics. Modem-to-modem or face-to-face,
A.A.'s speak the language of the heart in all its power and
simplicity.
c. 2001AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous
Foreword to
Fourth Edition, p. xxiv
Thought
to Consider . . .
We in A.A. don't carry the alcoholic; we carry the
message.
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
H E A R T
Healing, Enjoying, and Recovering,
Together.
*~*^Just
For Today!^*~*
Rewards
From "He Lived Only to
Drink":
"The rewards of sobriety are
bountiful and as progressive as the disease they counteract. Certainly among
these rewards for me are release from the prison of uniqueness, and the
realization that participation in the A.A. way of life is a blessing and
privilege beyond estimate - a blessing to live a life free from the pain and
degradation of drinking and filled with the joy of useful, sober living, and a
privilege to grow in sobriety one day at a time and bring the message of hope as
it was brought to me."
2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth
Edition
Alcoholics Anonymous, pg.
451
*^Daily
Reflections^*
WE CAN'T THINK OUR WAY SOBER
To the
intellectually self-sufficient man or woman, many A.A.'s can say, "Yes, we were
like you - far too smart for our own good . . . Secretly, we felt we
could float above the rest of the folks on our brain power alone."
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 60
Even the most brilliant mind is
no defense against the disease of alcoholism. I can't think my way
sober. I try to remember that intelligence is a God-given attribute that I
may use, a joy - like having a talent for dancing or drawing or
carpentry. It does not make me better than anyone else, and it is not a
particularly reliable tool for recovery, for it is a power greater than myself
who will restore me to sanity - not a high IQ or a college
degree.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES,
INC.
*~*^As
Bill
Sees
It^*~*
Daily Acceptance
"Too much of my life has been spent in
dwelling upon the faults of others. This is a most subtle and perverse form of
self-satisfaction, which permits us to remain comfortably unaware of our own
defects. Too often we are heard to say, 'If it weren't for him (or her), how
happy I'd be!'"
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"Our very first problem is
to accept our present circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, and the
people about us as they are. This is to adopt a realistic humility without which
no genuine advance can even begin. Again and again, we shall need to return to
that unflattering point of departure. This is an exercise in acceptance that we
can profitably practice every day of our lives. Provided we strenuously avoid
turning these realistic surveys of the facts of life into unrealistic alibis for
apathy or defeatism, they can be the sure foundation upon which increased
emotional health and therefore spiritual progress can be
built."
1. LETTER, 1966 - 2. GRAPEVINE, MARCH 1962
Copyright 1967
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc
*~*^Big
Book
Quote^*~*
"There is a principle which is a bar
against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which
cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance, that principle is
contempt prior to investigation."
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Appendices II
Spiritual Experience, pg. 568
*^Twenty
Four
Hours A
Day^*
A.A. Thought for the
Day
Sometimes we can't help thinking: Why can't
we ever drink again? We know it's because we're alcoholics, but why did we have
to get that way? The answer is that at some time in our drinking careers, we
passed what is called our "tolerance point." When we passed this point, we
passed from a condition in which we could tolerate alcohol to a condition in
which we could not tolerate it at all. After that, if we took one drink, we
would sooner or later end up drunk. When I think of liquor now, do I think of it
as something that I can never tolerate again?
Meditation for the
Day
In a race, it is when the goal
is in sight that heart and nerves and muscles and courage are strained almost to
the breaking point. So with us. The goal of the spiritual life is in sight. All
we need is the final effort. The saddest records are made by people who ran
well, with brave, stout hearts, until the sight of the goal and then some
weakness or self-indulgence held them back. They never knew how near the goal
they were or how near they were to victory.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may press on until the goal is
reached. I pray that I may not give up in the final
stretch.
Hazelden Foundation PO Box 176 Center City, MN
55012
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