Thoughts For The Day~*~Surrender ^*^*^ September 10
Transitions Daily
~*~A.A. Thoughts
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Surrender
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"There are two things I've learned from this program.
First, to surrender completely. I was fighting a losing battle with the
bottle. I gave up, and through defeat, I won. Second, to change myself,
because the world isn't going to change to suit 'poor little old me.'
It's just this simple -- whatever it is in me that led me down the
alcoholic road to misery, I no longer want any part of it."
c.1976, AA for the Woman
(AA Pamphlet P-5), p. 17
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Thought
to Consider . . .
Take a walk with God. He will meet you at the
Steps.
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A S A P =
Always Say A Prayer
What I've Learned
There have been some hard times too during these years of sobriety. When I was five years sober, the daughter who drove me to the treatment program and helped me get admitted disappeared. My AA friends helped me search for her, but she has never been found. Her mother and I raised her three daughters. I did not have to take a drink. I went to lots of meetings to relieve the pain. When I lost a second daughter to cancer a few years ago, I did the same thing.
What I've learned is that it doesn't matter what hardships
and losses I've endured in sobriety, I have not had to go back to drinking. As
long as I work the program, keep being of service, go to meetings, and keep my
spiritual life together, I can live a decent life.
2001, AAWS, Inc.,
Alcoholics Anonymous, page
485
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Reflections^*~*
RECOVERY BY PROXY?
They [the Promises] will
always materialize if we work for them.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS p.
84
Sometimes I think: "Making these amends is going too far!
No one should have to humble himself like that!" However, it is this very
humbling of myself that brings me that much closer to the sunlight of the
spirit. A.A. is the only hope I have if I am to continue healing and gain
a life of happiness, friendship and harmony.
Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
WORLD SERVICES, INC.
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Bill
Sees
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"Look Before You Leap"?
"Wise men and women rightly give
a top rating to the virtue of prudence. They know that without this all
important attribute little wisdom is to be had. "Mere 'looking before we
leap' is not enough. If our looking is charged with fear, suspicion, or anger,
we had better not have looked or acted at all."
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"We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small, as we realize
that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the
experience. Should our decision be the right one, we can thank God for giving us
the courage and the grace that caused us so to act."
LETTER, 1966
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Book
Quote^*~*
"To sum up about sex: We
earnestly pray for the right ideal, for guidance in each questionable
situation, for sanity, and for the strength to do the right thing. If sex is
very troublesome, we throw ourselves the harder into helping others. We think
of their needs and work for them. This takes us out of ourselves. It quiets
the imperious urge, when to yield would mean
heartache."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg.
70~
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Four
Hours A
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A.A. Thought for the Day
Here are answers to the question
of how a person can live without liquor and be happy: "The things we put in
place of drinking are more than substitutes for it. One is the fellowship of
Alcoholics Anonymous. In this company, you find release from care, boredom, and
worry. Your imagination will be fired. Life will mean something at last. The
most satisfactory years of your existence lie ahead. Among other A.A.s you win
make lifelong friends. You will be bound to them with new and wonderful ties."
Does life mean something to me now?
Meditation for the Day
Do you want the full and complete satisfaction that
you find in serving God and all the satisfactions of the world also? it is not
easy to serve both God and the world. It is difficult to claim the rewards of
both. If you work for God, you will still have great rewards in the world. But
you must be prepared to sometimes stand apart from the world. You cannot always
turn to the world and expect all the rewards that life has to offer. If you are
trying sincerely to serve God, you will have other and greater rewards than the
world has to offer.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may not expect too much from the
world. I pray that I may also be content with the rewards that come from serving
God.
Hazelden
Foundation PO Box 176 Center City, MN 55012