Thoughts For The Day~*~Communication ^*^*^ January 20
Transitions Daily
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Communication
From the beginning, communication in AA has been no ordinary transmission of helpful ideas and attitudes. Because of our kinship in suffering, and because our common means of deliverance are effective for ourselves only when constantly carried to others, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.
c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 195
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Thought to Consider . . .
Listening feeds the spirit.
C A R E = Comforting And Reassuring Each other
*~*^Just For Today!^*~*
"Every newcomer, every friend who looks at A.A. for the first time is greatly puzzled. They see liberty verging on license, yet they recognize at once that A.A. has an irresistible strength of purpose and action....The A.A. member has to conform to the principles of recovery. His life depends upon obedience to spiritual principles."
1981, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pages 129-30
"WE PAUSE ... AND ASK"
As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful and ask for the right thought or action.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 87
Today I humbly ask my Higher Power for the grace to find the space between my impulse and my action; to let flow a cooling breeze when I would respond with heat; to interrupt fierceness with gentle peace; to accept the moment which allows judgment to become discernment; to defer to silence when my tongue would rush to attack or defend.
I promise to watch for every opportunity to turn toward my Higher Power for guidance. I know where this power is: it resides within me, as clear as a mountain brook, hidden in the hills -- it is the unsuspected Inner Resource.
I thank my Higher Power for this world of light and truth I see when I allow it to direct my vision. I trust it today and hope it trusts me to make all effort to find the right thought or action today.
Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
*~*^As Bill Sees It^*~*
Light from a Prayer
"God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
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We treasure our "Serenity Prayer" because it brings a new light to us that can dissipate our oldtime and nearly fatal habit of fooling ourselves. In the radiance of this prayer we see that defeat, rightly accepted, need be no disaster. We now know that we do not have to run away, nor ought we again try to overcome adversity by still another bulldozing power drive that can only push up obstacles before us faster than they can be taken down.
GRAPEVINE, MARCH 1962
*~*^Big Book Quote^*~*
"If, when you honestly want
to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking, you have little
control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic. If that be the
case, you may be suffering from an illness which only a spiritual experience
will conquer."
~Alcoholics
Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg.
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A.A. Thought for the Day
In A.A.
we're all through with lying, hangovers, remorse, and wasting money. When we
were drinking, we were only half alive. Now that we're trying to live decent,
honest, unselfish lives, we're really alive. Life has a new meaning for us, so
that we can really enjoy it. We feel that we're some use in the world. We're on
the right side of the fence, instead of on the wrong side. We can look the world
in the face instead of hiding in alleys. We come into A.A. to get sober and if
we stay long enough, we learn a new way of living. Am I convinced that no matter
how much fun I got out of drinking, that life never was as good as the life I
can build in A.A.?
Meditation for the Day
I want to be at one with the Divine Spirit of the
universe. I will set my deepest affections on things spiritual, not on things
material. As we think, so we are. So I will think of and desire that which will
help, not hinder, my spiritual growth. I will try to be at one with God. No
human aspiration can reach higher than this.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may think love, and love will
surround me. I pray that I may think health, and health will come to
me.
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