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Thoughts
For
The Day~*~
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Service
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"Service gladly
rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved
with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in the world outside we
are partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's
sight all human beings are important, the proof that love freely given
surely brings a full return, the certainty that we are no longer isolated
and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we need no longer
be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of
things - these are the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right
living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material
possessions, could possibly be substitutes. True ambition is not what we
thought it was."
1952AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve
Traditions, p. 124
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Thought
to Consider . . .
Service is love in work clothes.
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
"At the
beginning I had liked this title very much. But as the book-naming discussion
went on, I began to have certain doubts and temptations. From the start the
title 'The Way Out' was popular. If we gave the book this name, then I could add
my signature, 'By Bill W.'! After all why shouldn't an author sign his book? I
began to forget that this was everybody's book and that I had been mostly the
umpire of the discussions that had created it. In one dark moment I even
considered calling the book 'The B.W. Movement.' I whispered these ideas to a
few friends and promptly got slapped down. Then I saw the temptation for what it
was, a shameless piece of egotism. So once more I began to vote for the title
'Alcoholics Anonymous.'"
2001 AAWS, Inc.;
Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pgs. 165-66
*~*^Daily Reflections^*~*
"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~
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A.A. Thought for the Day
"We have an allergy
to alcohol. The action of alcohol on chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an
allergy. We allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all. We
cannot be reconciled to a life without alcohol, unless we can experience an
entire psychic change. Once this psychic change has occurred, we who seemed
doomed, we who had so many problems that we despaired of ever solving them, find
ourselves able to control our desire for alcohol." Have I had a psychic change?
Meditation for the Day
Ask God in daily prayer to give you the
strength to change. When you ask God to change you, you must at the same time
fully trust Him. If you do not fully trust Him, God may answer your prayer as a
rescuer does that of a drowning person who is putting up too much of a struggle.
The rescuer must first render the person still more helpless, until he or she is
wholly at the rescuer's mercy. just so must we be wholly at God's mercy before
we can be rescued.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may be daily willing to be changed. I pray that
I may put myself wholly at the mercy of God.
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