Thoughts For The Day~*~Money Matters ^*^*^ February 6
Transitions Daily
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Money Matters
Money gradually became our servant and not our master. It became a means of exchanging love and service with those about us. When, with God's help, we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still suffered the same fears that they could get over them, too. We found that freedom from fear was more important than freedom from want.
c. 1952 AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 122
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Thought to Consider . . .
It's more important to feel happy about who I am than who I think I should be.
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P A C E = Positive Attitudes Change Everything.
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Hope
"I stayed up all night
reading that [Big] book. For me it was a wonderful experience. It explained so
much I had not understood about myself, and, best of all, it promised recovery
if I would do a few simple things and be willing to have the desire to drink
removed. Here was hope. Maybe I could find my way out of this agonizing
existence. Perhaps I could find freedom and peace, and be able once again to
call my soul my own."
2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth
Edition; Alcoholics Anonymous,
pg. 273
A RALLYING POINT
Therefore, Step Two is the rallying point for all of us. "Whether agnostic, atheist, or former believer, we can stand together on this Step.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 33
I feel that A.A. is a God-inspired program and that God is at every A.A. meeting. I see, believe, and have come to know that A.A. works, because I have stayed sober today. I am turning my life over to A.A. and to God by going to an A.A. meeting. If God is in my heart and everyone else's, then I am a small part of a whole and I am not unique. If God is in my heart and He speaks to me through other people, then I must be a channel of God to other people. I should seek to do His will by living spiritual principles and my reward will be sanity and emotional sobriety.
Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
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A Full and Thankful Heart
One
exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings and then
for a right acceptance of the many gifts that are mine - both temporal and
spiritual. Here I try to achieve a state of joyful gratitude. When such a brand
of gratitude is repeatedly affirmed and pondered, it can finally displace the
natural tendency to congratulate myself on whatever progress I may have been
enabled to make in some areas of living.
I try hard to hold fast to the truth
that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming
with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest
emotion that we can ever know.
GRAPEVINE, MARCH 1962
*~*^Big
Book
Quote^*~*
"God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask
Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is
still sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order.
But obviously you cannot transmit something you haven't got. See to
it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to
pass for you and countless others. This is the Great Fact for
us."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You, pg.
164~
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A.A. Thought for the Day
On a dark night, the bright lights
of the comer tavern look mighty inviting. Inside, there seems to be warmth and
good cheer. But we don't stop to think that if we go in there we'll probably end
up drunk, with our money spent and an awful hangover. A long mahogany bar in the
tropical moonlight looks like a very gay place. But you should see the place the
next morning. The chairs are piled on the tables and the place stinks of stale
beer and cigarette stubs. And often we are there too, trying to cure the shakes
by gulping down straight whiskey. Can I look straight through the night before
and see the morning after?
Meditation for the Day
God finds,
amid the crowd, a few people who follow Him, just to be near Him, just to dwell
in His presence. A longing in the Eternal Heart may be satisfied by these few
people. I will let God know that I seek just to dwell in His presence, to be
near Him, not so much for teaching or a message, as just for Him. It may be that
the longing of the human heart to be loved for itself is something caught from
the Great Divine Heart.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I
may have a listening ear, so that God may speak to me. I pray that I may have a
aiting heart, so that God may come to me.
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