"A body badly burned
by alcohol does not often recover overnight nor do twisted thinking and
depression vanish in a twinkling. We are convinced that a spiritual mode of
living is a most powerful health
restorative."
~Alcoholics
Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Family Afterward, Page
133~
*^Twenty
Four
Hours
A Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
The A.A.
program is more a way of building a new life than just a way of getting over
drinking, because in A.A. we don't just stop drinking. We did that plenty of
times in the old days when we "went on the wagon." And, of course, we always
started to drink again, because we were only waiting for the time when we could
fall off. Once we've gotten sober through the A.A. program, we start going
uphill. In our drinking days, we were going downhill, getting worse and worse.
We either go down or up. Am I going uphill, getting better and better?
Meditation for the Day
I will try
to obey God's will day in and day out, in the wilderness plains as well as on
the mountain tops of experience. It is in the daily strivings that perseverance
counts. I believe that God is Lord of little things, the Divine Controller of
little happenings. I will persevere in this new way of life. I know that nothing
in the day is too small to be part of God's scheme.
Prayer for the Day
I pray
that the little stones that I put into the mosaic of my life may make a
worthwhile pattern. I pray that I may persevere and so find harmony and
beauty.
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