Thoughts For The Day~*~Hangovers ^*^*^ August 14
Transitions Daily
~*~A.A. Thoughts
For
The Day~*~
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Hangovers
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"When a drunk has a terrific hangover because he
drank heavily yesterday, he cannot live well today. But there is another
kind of hangover which we all experience whether we are drinking or not.
That is the emotional hangover, the direct result of yesterday's and
sometimes today's excesses of negative emotion - anger, fear, jealousy,
and the like. If we would live serenely today and tomorrow, we certainly
need to eliminate these hangovers."
1952AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 88
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Thought
to Consider . . .
I'd
rather be better than bitter.
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A A = Altered Attitudes
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Joker in the Glass
You know, Dan, he [Dr. Bob] told me, many people coming into A.A. get the wrong conception of "Easy Does It, and I hope you don't. It doesn't mean that you sit on your fanny, stay home from meetings and let other people work the program for you. It doesn't mean you have an easy life without drinking. Easy Does It means you take it a day at a time.
He told me that before I could be honest with him or my sponsor or anyone else, I had to get honest with that joker in the glass.
I didn't know what he meant by that joker in the glass. He told
me that was the man in the looking glass. When you shave tomorrow, get honest
with the man who looks back at you from the looking
glass.
1980, AAWS, Inc., Dr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers,
page 282
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Reflections^*~*
REPAIRING THE
DAMAGE
We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of our
effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves. If we haven't the
will to do this, we ask until it comes. Remember it was agreed at the beginning
we would go to any lengths for victory over alcohol.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 76
Making a list of people I had
harmed was not a particularly difficult thing to do. They had showed up in my
Fourth Step inventory: people towards whom I had resentments, real or
imagined, and whom I had hurt by acts of retaliation. For my recovery to be
thorough, I believed it was not important for those who had legitimately harmed
me to make amends to me. What is important in my relationship with God is that I
stand before Him, knowing I have done what I can to repair the damage I have
done.
Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES,
INC.
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Bill
Sees
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Humility for the Fellowship, Too
We of
A.A. sometimes brag of the virtues of our Fellowship. Let us remember that few
of these are actually earned virtues. We were forced into them, to begin with,
by the cruel lash of alcoholism. We finally adopted them, not because we wished
to, but because we had to. Then, as time confirmed the seeming rightness of
our basic principles, we began to conform because it was right to do so. Some of
us, notably myself, conformed even then with reluctance. But at last we came to
a point where we stood willing to conform gladly to the principles which
experience, under the grace of God, had taught us.
A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 224
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Book
Quote^*~*
Let no alcoholic say he cannot recover
unless he has his family back. His recovery is not dependent upon people. It is
dependent upon his relationship with God, however he may define
him.
Alcoholics Anonymous p. 99,100
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Four
Hours A
Day^*~*
A.A. Thought for the Day
"None of us like to think that we are
bodily and mentally different from others. Our drinking careers have been
characterized by countless vain attempts to prove that we could drink like
other people. This delusion that we are like other people has to be smashed. It
has been definitely proved that no real alcoholic has ever recovered control.
Over any considerable period we get worse, never better. There is no such thing
as making a normal drinker out of an alcoholic." Am I convinced that I can never
drink again normally?
Meditation
for the Day
We should
have life and have it more abundantly spiritual, mental, physical, abundant
life-joyous, powerful life. This we can have if we follow the right way. Not all
people will accept from God the gift of an abundant life, a gift held out free
to all. Not all people care to stretch out a hand and take it. God's gift, the
richest He has to offer, is the precious gift of abundant life. People often
turn away from it, reject it, and will have none of it. Do not let this be true
of you.
Prayer for the Day
I
pray that I may hasten to accept the gift of abundant spiritual life. I pray
that I my live the good life to the best of my ability.
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