Thoughts For The Day~*~Carry the Message ^*^*^ June 5
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~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~
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Carry the Message
"We sit at AA meetings and listen, not only to receive something, but to give reassurance and support which our presence can bring. If our turn comes to speak at a meeting, we again try to carry AA's message. Whether our audience is one or many, it is still Twelfth Step work."
Bill W., Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 110
Thought to Consider....
That light at the end of the tunnel may be you.
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T R U S T =Teaching Recovery Using Steps and Traditions
*~*^Just For Today!^*~*
"As
the [Big Book] chapters were slowly roughed out I read them to the New
York group at its weekly meeting in our parlor at Clinton Street, and
copies were sent to Dr. Bob for checking and criticisms in Akron, where
we had nothing but the warmest support. But in the New York meeting the
chapters got a real mauling. I redictated them and Ruth retyped them
over and over. In spite of the heated arguments, the New York group's
criticisms did help a lot, and to some extent the enthusiasm and
confidence increased."
2001 AAWS Inc.
Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pg. 159
*^Daily Reflections^*
ENTIRELY READY?
"This
is the Step that separates the men from the boys.". . . the difference
between "the boys and the men" is the difference between striving for a
self determined objective and for the perfect objective which is of God.
. . . It is suggested that we ought to become entirely willing to aim
toward perfection. . . The moment we say, "No, never!" our minds close
against the grace of God. . . This is the exact point at which we
abandon limited objectives, and move toward God's will for us.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 63, 68, 69
Am
I entirely ready to have God remove these defects of character? Do I
know at long last that I cannot save myself? I have come to believe
that I cannot. If I am unable, if my best intentions go wrong, if my
desires are selfishly motivated and if my knowledge and will are limited
-- then I am ready to embrace God's will for my life.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
*~*^As Bill Sees It^*~*
Suffering Transmuted, p. 35
"A.A.
is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of
suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress."
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For
Dr. Bob, the insatiable craving for alcohol was evidently a
physical phenomenon which bedeviled several of his first years in A.A., a
time when only days and nights of carrying the message to other
alcoholics could cause him to forget about drinking. Although his
craving was hard to withstand, it doubtless did account for some part of
the intense incentive that went into forming Akron's Group Number One.
Bob's spiritual release did not come easily; it was to be painfully
slow. It always entailed the hardest kind of work and the sharpest
vigilance.
1. Letter, 1959
2. A.A. Comes Of Age, p. 69
*~*^Big Book Quote^*~*
"We
feel as though we had been placed in a position of neutrality safe and
protected. We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been
removed. It does not exist for us. We are neither cocky nor are we
afraid. That is our experience. That is how we react so long as we keep
in fit spiritual condition."
Alcoholics Anonymous 4th Edition
Into Action, Page 85
*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
We
alcoholics are fortunate to be living in a day and age when there is
such a thing as Alcoholics Anonymous. Before A.A. came into being, there
was very little hope for the alcoholic. A.A. is a great rebuilder of
human wreckage. It takes men and women whose personality problem
expresses itself in alcoholism and offers them a program that, if they
are willing to accept it, allows them not only to get sober, but also to
find a much better way of living. Have I found a better way of living?
Meditation for the Day
Very
quietly God speaks through your thoughts and feelings. Heed the Divine
voice of your conscience. Listen for this and you will never be
disappointed in i the results in your life. Listen for this small, still
voice and your tired nerves will become rested. The Divine voice comes
to you as strength as well as tenderness, as power as well as
restfulness. Your moral strength derives its effectiveness from the
power that comes when you listen patiently for the still, small voice.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may listen for the still, small voice of God. I pray that I may obey the leading of my conscience.
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