Thoughts For The Day~*~Puzzle^*^*^ July 1
Transitions Daily
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Thoughts
For
The Day~*~
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Puzzle
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"By nature touchy and suspicious, the alcoholic likes to be
left alone to work out his puzzle, and he has a convenient way of ignoring
the tragedy which he inflicts meanwhile upon those who are close to him.
He holds desperately to a conviction that, although he has not been able
to handle alcohol in the past, he will ultimately succeed in becoming a
controlled drinker. One of medicine's queerest animals, he is, as often
as not, an acutely intelligent person. He fences with professional men and
relatives who attempt to aid him and he gets a perverse satisfaction out
of tripping them up in argument."
The Jack Alexander Article
From the March 1941
issue of The Saturday Evening Post
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Thought
to Consider . . .
There is
no such thing as being 'a little bit alcoholic.'
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
D E N I A L = Don't Even Notice I Am Lying.
*~*^Just For Today!^*~*
Blindness
"This lack of anchorage to
any permanent values, this blindness to the true purpose of our lives, produced
another bad result. For just so long as we were convinced that we could live
exclusively by our own individual strength and intelligence, for just that long
was a working faith in a Higher Power impossible."
1952, AAWS, Inc.; Printed
2005; Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg.
72
*~*^Daily
Reflections^*~*
THE BEST FOR TODAY
The
principles we have set down are guides to progress.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 60
Just as a sculptor will use different tools to achieve
desired effects in creating a work of art, in Alcoholics Anonymous the
Twelve Steps are used to bring about results in my own life. I do not
overwhelm my self with life's problems, and how much more work needs to be
done. I let myself be comforted in knowing that my life is now in the
hands of my Higher Power, a master craftsman who is shaping each part of
my life into a unique work of art. By working my program I can be satisfied,
knowing that "in doing the best that we can for today, we are doing all that
God asks of us."
Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES,
INC.
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Bill
Sees
It^*~*
The Reality of Spiritual
Experiences
"Perhaps you raise the question of
hallucination verses the divine imagery of a genuine spiritual experience. I
doubt if anyone has authoritatively defined what an hallucination really is.
However, it is certain that all recipients of spiritual experiences declare for
their reality. The best evidence of that reality is in the subsequent fruits.
Those who receive these gifts of grace are very much changed people, almost
invariably for the better. This can scarcely be said of those who hallucinate.
"Some might think me presumptuous when I say that my own experience is real.
Nevertheless, I can surely report that in my own life and in the lives of
countless others, the fruits of that experience have been real, and the
benefactions beyond reckoning."
TALK, 1960
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Big
Book
Quote
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"The
greatest enemies of us alcoholics are resentment, jealousy, envy,
frustration, and fear."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, To Employers, pg.
145~
"Resentment is the
"number one" offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything
else."
~Alcoholics
Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg.
64~
*~*^Twenty
Four
Hours A
Day^*~*
A.A. Thought for the Day
In following the A.A. program with its
twelve steps, we have the advantage of a better understanding of our
problems. Day after day our sobriety results in the formation of new
habits, normal habits. As each twenty-four-hour period ends, we find
that the business of staying sober is a much less trying and fearsome ordeal
than it seemed in the beginning. Do I find it easier as I go alone?
Meditation for the
Day
Learn daily the lesson of trust and calm in the
midst of the storms of life. Whatever of sorrow or difficulty the day may
bring, God's command to you is the same. Be grateful, humble, calm, and
loving to all people. Leave each soul the better for having met you or heard
you. For all kinds of people, this should be your attitude: a loving desire
to help and an infectious spirit of calmness and trust in God. You have the
answer to loneliness and fear, which is calm faith in the goodness and
purpose in the universe.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may he calm in the midst of storms. I
pray that I may pass on this calmness to others who are lonely and full
of fear.
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55012