*~*^Just For Today!^*~*
"The majority of A.A. members
have suffered severely from self-justification during their drinking days. For
most of us, self-justification was the maker of excuses; excuses, of course, for
drinking, and for all kinds of crazy and damaging conduct. We had made the
invention of alibis a fine art. We had to drink because times were hard or times
were good. We had to drink because at home we were smothered with love or got
none at all. We had to drink because at work we were great successes or dismal
failures. We had to drink because our nation had won a war or lost a peace. And
so it went, ad infinitum."
1952, AAWS, Inc.; Printed
2005
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pgs.
46-47
"When we decide who is to hear our story, we waste no time. We have a
written inventory and we are prepared for a long talk. We explain to our
partner what we are about to do and why we have to do it. He should realize
that we are engaged upon a life-and-death errand. Most people approached in
this way will be glad to help; they will be honored by our
confidence."
Alcoholics Anonymous 4th
Edition
Into Action, pg. 75
*^Twenty
Four
Hours A
Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
Terrible things could have
happened to any one of us. We never will know what might have happened to us
when we were drunk. We usually thought: "That couldn't happen to me." But any
one of us could have killed somebody or have been killed ourselves, if we were
drunk enough. But fear of these things never kept us from drinking. Do I believe
that in A.A. we have something more effective than fear?
Meditation for the Day
I must keep calm and unmoved in the
vicissitudes of life. I must go back into the silence of communion with God to
recover this calm when it is lost even for one moment. I will accomplish more by
this calmness than by all the activities of a long day. At all cost I will keep
calm. I can solve nothing when I am agitated. I should keep away from things
that are upsetting emotionally. I should run on an even keel and not get tipped
over by emotional upsets. I should seek for things that are calm and good and
true and stick to those things.
Prayer for the
Day
I pray that
I may not argue nor contend, but merely state calmly what I believe to be true.
I pray that I may keep myself in that state of calmness that comes from faith in
God's purpose for the world.
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