*~*^Just For Today!^*~*
"The intense drive that most of us alcoholics have for money, prestige, and power then crashed into the open by way of broken anonymity at the public level. This development of the 1945-1950 period was made even more dangerous by the fact that most of the anonymity breakers meant well. Sometimes these folks wanted to use the A.A. name publicly in order to help other good causes. Sometimes they just wanted their names and pictures in the papers always, of course, to help A.A. [W]e saw that the risk to A.A. would be appalling if all our power-drivers finally got loose at the public level. Scores of them were already doing it.
"So A.A. Headquarters got to
work. We wrote remonstrances, kind ones, of course, to every breaker. We sent
letters to nearly all press, radio, and publishing outlets, explaining why
A.A.'s should not break their anonymity before the general public. Group
feeling, combined with the Headquarters efforts, finally squeezed the anonymity
breakers down to a mere handful within a few years. Had this tendency not been
checked, the whole character of our society could have changed, and its future
could have been fearfully compromised."
2001 AAWS Inc.
Alcoholics
Anonymous Comes of Age, pg. 209
*^Daily Reflections^*
"It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition."
*^Twenty
Four
Hours A
Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
Every time we go to an A.A.
meeting, every time we say the Lord's Prayer, every time we have a quiet time
before breakfast, we're paying a premium on our insurance against taking that
first drink. And every time we help another alcoholic, we're making a large
payment on our drink insurance. We're making sure that our policy doesn't lapse.
Am I building up an endowment in serenity, peace, and happiness that will put me
on easy street for the rest of my life?
Meditation for the
Day
I gain faith by my own experience of
God's power in my life. The constant, persistent recognition of God's spirit in
all my personal relationships, the ever accumulating weight of evidence in
support of God's guidance, the numberless instances in which seeming chance or
wonderful coincidence can be traced to God's purpose in my life. All these
things gradually engender a feeling of wonder, humility, and gratitude to God.
These in turn are followed by a more sure and abiding faith in God and His
purposes.
Prayer for the Day
I pray
that my faith may be strengthened every day. I pray that I may find confirmation
of my life in the good things that have come into my
life.
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