"This is not to say that all
alcoholics are honest and upright when not drinking. Of course that isn't so,
and such people often may impose on you. Seeing your attempt to understand and
help, some men will try to take advantage of your kindness. If you are sure your
man does not want to stop, he may as well be discharged, the sooner the better.
You are not doing him a favor by keeping him on. Firing such an individual may
prove a blessing to him. It may be just the jolt he needs."
2001 AAWS, Inc. Fourth
Edition
Alcoholics Anonymous, pg.
141
"When we became alcoholics,
crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to
fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is
nothing. God either is or He isn't."
~Alcoholics Anonymous 4th Edition
We Agnostics, pg.
53~
*^Twenty
Four
Hours A
Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
After wave been in A.A. for a
while, we find out that if we're going to stay sober, we have to be humble
people. The men and women in A.A. who have achieved sobriety are all humble
people. When I stop to think that but for the grace of God I might be drunk
Tight now, I can't help feeling humble. Gratitude to God for His grace makes me
humble. When I think of the kind of person I was not so long ago, when I think
of the person I left behind me, I have nothing to be proud of. Am I grateful and
humble?
Meditation for the Day
I
must arise from the death of sin and selfishness and put on a new life of
integrity. All the old sins and temptations must be laid in the grave and a new
existence rise from the ashes. Yesterday is gone. All my sins are forgiven if I
am honestly trying to do God's will today. Today is here, the time of
resurrection and renewal. I must start now, today, to build a new life of
complete faith and trust in God and a determination to do His will in all
things.
Prayer for the Day
I pray
that I may share in making the world a better place to live in. I pray that I
may do what I can to bring goodness a little nearer to the
earth.
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