*~*^Just For Today!^*~*
"Most alcoholics owe money.
We do not dodge our creditors. Telling them what we are trying to do, we make no
bones about our drinking; they usually know it anyway, whether we think so or
not. Nor are we afraid of disclosing our alcoholism on the theory it may cause
financial harm. Approached in this way, the most ruthless creditor will
sometimes surprise us. ... [W]e let these people know we are sorry. Our drinking
has made us slow to pay. We must lose our fear of creditors no matter how far we
have to go, for we are liable to drink if we are afraid to face
them."
2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth
Edition; Alcoholics Anonymous, pg.
78
"My friend
suggested what then seemed a novel idea. He said, 'Why don't you choose your
own conception of God?'
That statement hit me hard. It melted the icy
intellectual mountain in whose shadow I had lived and shivered many years. I
stood in the sunlight at last.
It was only a matter of being willing
to believe in a Power greater than myself. Nothing more was required of me to
make my beginning. I saw that growth could start from that
point."
~Alcoholics
Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill's Story, pg.
12~
*^Twenty
Four
Hours A
Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
After I
became an alcoholic, alcohol poisoned my love for my family and friends, it
poisoned my ambition, it poisoned my self respect. it poisoned my whole life,
until I met A.A. My life is happier now than it has been for a long time. I
don't want to commit suicide. So with the help of God and A.A., I'm not going to
take any more of that alcoholic poison into my system. And I'm going to keep
training my mind never even to think of liquor again in any way except as a
poison. Do I believe that liquor will poison my life if I ever touch it again?
Meditation for the Day
I will link up my frail nature
with the limitless Divine Power. I will link my life with the Divine Force for
Good in the world. It is not the passionate appeal that gains the Divine
attention as much as the quiet placing of the difficulty and worry in the Divine
Hands. So I will trust God like a child who places its tangled skein of wool in
the hands of a loving parent to unravel. We please God more by our unquestioning
confidence than by imploring Him for help.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I
may put all my difficulties in God's hands and leave them there. I pray that I
may fully trust God to take care of them.
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