Thoughts For The Day~*~Freedom ^*^*^ May 29
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~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~
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Freedom
"So far, upon the total problem of several million actual and potential alcoholics in the world,
we have made only a scratch. In all probability, we shall never be able
to touch more than a fair fraction of the alcohol problem in all its
ramifications. Upon therapy for the alcoholic himself, we surely have
no monopoly. Yet it is our great hope that all those who have as yet
found no answer may begin to find one in the pages of this book and will
presently join us on the highroad to a new freedom."
Foreword to Second Edition Alcoholics Anonymous
pp. xx-xxi
Thought to Consider....
"Within our wonderful new world, we have found freedom from our fatal obsession."
Bill W.
Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, p. 139
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SOBRIETY
Stay Off Booze Recovery Is Everything To You
*~*^Just For Today!^*~*
"In
medicine, we have learned a great deal about the physical treatment of
the alcoholic. We have learned about nutrition and the importance of a
fully rounded diet, and vitamins and minerals. But we do know that
these things are necessary in the physical treatment and rehabilitation
of the alcoholic. We know also that various kinds of drying out and
other forms of therapy have failed. They are not enough by themselves.
We need something more. "We
know also that religious exhortation has failed, as has exhortation
from people who have no grasp of the problem, who oversimplify, people
in whose view an alcoholic is a person who is perpetually thirsty with a
fierce craving for alcohol, people who do not know that a great many
alcoholics hate alcohol worse than poison when they are sober, because
they know that it is poison. "[A]s
time went on I became less and less astonished as I saw the
effectiveness of your work, as I saw a man of great talent, a close
friend of mine, a man who was almost on the verge of genius. I saw
alcohol make its insidious inroads upon his career, upon his
relationships with his family and children, upon his standing in the
community. "I
saw him on the verge of losing his job, and I saw him lose his job; and
then I saw him surrender. I saw him throw up his hands and quit,
saying, 'I can't do it by myself. I've got to have help.' And with the
spiritual help of his clergyman and A.A., I have seen that man come back
to a commanding position in his field, a man who is as sober today, as
clear-eyed and bright, as any person in this audience." Dr. W. W. Bauer, 1955
2001 AAWS Inc.
Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pgs. 241-43
*^Daily Reflections^*
TRUE TOLERANCE
The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 139
I
first heard the short form of the Third Tradition in the Preamble.
When I came to A.A. I could not accept myself, my alcoholism, or a
Higher Power. If there had been any physical, mental, moral, or
religious requirements for membership, I would be dead today. Bill W.
said in his tape on the Traditions that the Third Tradition is a charter
for individual freedom. The most impressive thing to me was the
feeling of acceptance from members who were practicing the Third
Tradition by tolerating and accepting me. I feel acceptance is love and
love is God's will for us.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
*~*^As Bill Sees It^*~*
Guide to a Better Way
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Implicit throughout A.A.'s Traditions is the confession that our Fellowship has its sins. We admit that we have character defects as a society and that these defects threaten us continually. our Traditions are a guide to better ways of working and living, and they are to group survival and harmony what A.A.'s Twelve Steps are to each member's sobriety and peace of mind.
1. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, P. 25
2. A.A. COMES OF AGE, P. 96
*~*^Big Book Quote^*~*
"We
are like men who have lost their legs; they never grow new ones.
Neither does there appear to be any kind of treatment which will make
alcoholics of our kind like other men. We have tried every imaginable
remedy. In some instances there has been brief recovery, followed always
by a still worse relapse. Physicians who are familiar with alcoholism
agree there is no such thing as making a normal drinker out of an
alcoholic. Science may one day accomplish this, but it hasn't done so
yet."
~Alcoholics Anonymous 4th Edition
More About Alcoholism, pg. 30~
*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
We
who have learned to put our drink problem in God's hands can help
others to do so. We can be used as a connection between an alcoholic's
need and God's supply of strength. We in Alcoholics Anonymous can be
uniquely useful, just because we have the misfortune or fortune to be
alcoholics ourselves. Do I want to be a uniquely useful person? Will I
use my own greatest defeat and failure and sickness as a weapon to
help others?
Meditation for the Day
I
will try to help others. I will try not to let a day pass without
reaching out an arm of love to someone. Each day I will try to do
something to lift another human being out of the sea of discouragement
into which he or she has fallen. My helping hand is needed to raise the
helpless to courage, to strength, to faith, to health. In my own
gratitude, I will turn and help other alcoholics with the burden that
is pressing too heavily upon them.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may be used by God to lighten many burdens. I pray that many souls may be helped through my efforts.
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