~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~
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Friendship
"Carry
this message to other alcoholics! You can help when no one else can.
You can secure their confidence when others fail. Remember they are
very ill. Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to
see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship
grow up around you, to have a host of friends - this is an experience
you must not miss. Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other
is the bright spot of our lives."
1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 89
Thought to Consider . . .
I keep my sobriety by giving it away.
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
C A R E
Comforting And Reassuring Each other
*~*^Just For Today!^*~*
Progress
Step Six: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
"If
we ask, God will certainly forgive our derelictions. But in no case
does He render us white as snow and keep us that way without our
cooperation. That is something we are supposed to be willing to work
toward ourselves. He asks only that we try as best we know how to make
progress in the building of character."
1952, AAWS Inc. Printed 2005
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg. 65
*^Daily Reflections^*
A SPIRITUAL KINDERGARTEN
We
are only operating a spiritual kindergarten in which people are enabled
to get over drinking and find the grace to go on living to better
effect.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 95
When
I came to A.A., I was run down by the bottle and wanted to lose the
obsession to drink, but I didn't really know how to do that. I decided
to stick around long enough to find out from the ones who went before
me. All of a sudden I was thinking about God! I was told to get a
Higher Power and I had no idea what one looked like. I found out there
are many Higher Powers. I was told to find God, as I understand Him,
that there was no doctrine of the Godhead in A.A. I found what worked
for me and then asked that Power to restore me to sanity. The obsession
to drink was removed and one day at a time my life went on, and I
learned how to live sober.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
*~*^As Bill Sees It^*~*
Aspects of Tolerance
"All
kinds of people have found their way into A.A. Not too long ago, I sat
talking in my office with a member who bears the title of Countess. That
same night, I went to an A.A. meeting. It was winter, and there was a
mild-looking little gent taking the coats. I said, 'Who's that?' And
somebody answered, 'Oh, he's been around for a long time. Everybody
likes him. He used to be one of Al Capone's mob.' That's how universal
A.A. is today."
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"We have no desire to
convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be
acquired. All of us, whatever our race, creed, or color, are the
children of a living Creator, with whom we may form a relationship upon
simple and understandable terms as soon as we are willing and honest
enough to try."
1. A.A. COMES OF AGE, P. 102
2.ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, P. 28
*~*^Big Book Quote^*~*
"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
Alcohol
is our weakness. We suffer from mental conflicts from which we look for
escape by drowning our problems in drink. We try through drink to push
away from the realities of life. But alcohol does not feed, alcohol does
not build, it only borrows from the future and it ultimately destroys. We try to drown our feelings in order to escape life's realities,
little realizing or caring that in continued drinking we are only
multiplying our problems. Have I got control over my unstable emotions?
Meditation for the Day
When
I let personal piques and resentments interfere with what I know to be
my proper conduct, I am on the wrong track and I am undoing all I have
built up by doing the right thing. I must never let personal piques
interfere with living the way I know God wants me to live. When I have
no clear guidance from God, I must go forward quietly along the path of
duty. The attitude of quiet faith will receive its reward as surely as
acting upon God's direct guidance. I must not weaken my spiritual power
by letting personal piques upset me.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may not let myself become too upset. I pray that I may go quietly along the path I have chosen.
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