Thoughts For The Day~*~Friendship ^*^*^ June 24
Transitions Daily
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"Carry this message to other alcoholics! You can help when no one else can. You can secure their confidence when others fail. Remember they are very ill. Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up around you, to have a host of friends - this is an experience you must not miss. Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright spot of our lives."
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Thought to Consider . . .
I keep my sobriety by giving it away.
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A SPIRITUAL KINDERGARTEN
We are only operating a spiritual kindergarten in which people are enabled to get over drinking and find the grace to go on living to better effect.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 95
When I came to A.A., I was run down by the bottle and wanted to lose the obsession to drink, but I didn't really know how to do that. I decided to stick around long enough to find out from the ones who went before me. All of a sudden I was thinking about God! I was told to get a Higher Power and I had no idea what one looked like. I found out there are many Higher Powers. I was told to find God, as I understand Him, that there was no doctrine of the Godhead in A.A. I found what worked for me and then asked that Power to restore me to sanity. The obsession to drink was removed and one day at a time my life went on, and I learned how to live sober.
Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
Aspects of Tolerance
All kinds of people have found their way into A.A. Not too long ago, I sat talking in my office with a member who bears the title of Countess. That same night, I went to an A.A. meeting. It was winter, and there was a mild-looking little gent taking the coats. I said, "Who's that?" And somebody answered, "Oh, he's been around for a long time. Everybody likes him. He used to be one of Al Capone's mob." That's how universal A.A. is today.
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We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired. All of us, whatever our race, creed, or color, are the children of a living Creator, with whom we may form a relationship upon simple and understandable terms as soon as we are willing and honest enough to try.
2.ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, P. 28
*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*
"When
we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not
postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either
God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is or He isn't."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 53~
*~*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*~*
A.A. Thought for the Day
Alcohol
is our weakness. We suffer from mental conflicts from which we look for
escape by drowning our problems in drink. We try through drink to push
away from the realities of life. But alcohol does not feed, alcohol does
not build, it only borrows from the future and it ultimately destroys.
We try to drown our feelings in order to escape life's realities,
little realizing or caring that in continued drinking we are only
multiplying our problems. Have I got control over my unstable emotions?
Meditation for the Day
When
I let personal piques and resentments interfere with what I know to be
my proper conduct, I am on the wrong track and I am undoing all I have
built up by doing the right thing. I must never let personal piques
interfere with living the way I know God wants me to live. When I have
no clear guidance from God, I must go forward quietly along the path of
duty. The attitude of quiet faith will receive its reward as surely as
acting upon God's direct guidance. I must not weaken my spiritual power
by letting personal piques upset me.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may not let myself become too upset. I pray that I may go quietly along the path I have chosen.
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