Thoughts For The Day~*~A New Life ^*^*^ February 17
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A New Life
Life will take on a new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends -- this is an experience you must not miss. We know you will not want to miss it.
c. 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 89
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Thought to Consider . . .
Break out of your shell and join us!
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F E E L = Feel, Experience, Express, Let
go
*~*^Just For Today!^*~*
God's Help
"I know I am an alcoholic and while I used to call on God to help me, my conclusion is that I was simply asking God to help me drink alcohol without its hurting me, which is a far different thing than asking him [sic] to help me not to drink at all."
2005, AAWS, Inc.; Experience, Strength & Hope, pg. 113
THE LOVE IN THEIR EYES
Some of us won't believe in God, others can't, and still others who do believe that God exists have no faith whatever He will perform this miracle.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 25
It was the changes I saw in the new people who came into the Fellowship that helped me lose my fear, and change my negative attitude to a positive one. I could see the love in their eyes and I was impressed by how much their "One Day at a Time" sobriety meant to them. They had looked squarely at Step Two and came to believe that a power greater than themselves was restoring them to sanity. That gave me faith in the Fellowship, and hope that it could work for me too. I found that God was a loving God, not that punishing God I feared before coming to A.A. I also found that He had been with me during all those times I had been in trouble before I came to A.A. I know today that He was the one who led me to A.A. and that I am a miracle.
Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
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Bill
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Live Serenely
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. This doesn't mean we need to wander morbidly around
in the past. It requires an admission and correction of errors -
now.
TWELVE AND TWELVE, pp. 88-89
Copyright®1967 Alcoholics
Anonymous World Services, Inc.
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"We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way
by which faith can be acquired. If what we have learned and felt and seen
means anything at all, it means that all of us, whatever our race, creed, or
color are the children of a living Creator with whom we may form a
relationship upon simple and understandable terms as soon as we are willing
and honest enough to try."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg.
28~
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A.A. Thought for the Day
Alcohol is poison to the alcoholic.
Poison is not too strong a word, because alcoholism leads eventually to the
death of the alcoholic. It may be a quick death or a slow death. When we go by
package stores and see various kinds of liquor all dressed up in fancy packages
to make it look attractive, we should always make it a point to say to ourselves
so we'll never forget it: "That stuffs all poison to me." And it is. Alcohol
poisoned our lives for a long time. Do I know that since I'm an alcoholic all
liquor is poison to me?
Meditation for the Day
I
must somehow find the means of coming nearer to God. That is what really
matters. I must somehow seek the true bread of life, which is communion with
Him. I must grasp for the truth at the center of all worship. This central truth
is all that matters. All forms of worship have this communion with God as their
purpose and goal.
Prayer for the Day
I
pray that I may meet God in quiet communion. I pray that I may partake of the
soul-food that God has provided for me.
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