~A.A.
Thoughts
For
The Day~
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Neighbors
Near you, alcoholics are dying helplessly like
people in a sinking ship. If you live in a large place, there are
hundreds. High and low, rich and poor, these are future fellows of
Alcoholics Anonymous. Among them you will make lifelong friends. You will
be bound to them with new and wonderful ties, for you will escape disaster
together and you will commence shoulder to shoulder your common
journey. Then you will know what it means to give of yourself that others
may survive and rediscover life. You will learn the full meaning of "Love
Thy neighbor as thyself."
c. 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, pp.
152-153
Thought
to Consider . . .
Sobriety
is a journey, not a destination.
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
T E A M
Together Everyone Achieves
More
*~*^Just
For
Today!^*~*
Illness
Step Two: Came to believe
that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
"Few indeed are the
practicing alcoholics who have any idea how irrational they are, or seeing their
irrationality, can bear to face it. Some will be willing to term themselves
'problem drinkers,' but cannot endure the suggestion that they are in fact
mentally ill. They are abetted in this blindness by a world which does not
understand the difference between sane drinking and alcoholism. 'Sanity' is
defined as 'soundness of mind.' Yet no alcoholic, soberly analyzing his
destructive behavior, whether the destruction fell on the dining-room furniture
or his own moral fiber, can claim 'soundness of mind' for
himself."
1952, AAWS, Inc.; Printed
2005
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pgs.
32-33
*^Daily
Reflections^*
NO ORDINARY SUCCESS STORY
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.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 35
Upon
entering A.A., I listened to others talk about the reality of their drinking:
loneliness, terror and pain. As I listened further, I soon heard a
description of a very different kind - the reality of sobriety. It is a
reality of freedom and happiness, of purpose and direction, and of serenity and
peace with God, ourselves and others. By attending meetings I am
reintroduced to that reality, over and over. I see it in the eyes and hear
it in the voices of those around me. By working the program I find the
direction and strength with which to make it mine. The joy of A.A. is that
this new reality is available to me.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES,
INC.
*~*^As
Bill
Sees
It^*~*
Better than Gold
"As newcomers, many of us have indulged in spiritual
intoxication. Like a gaunt prospector, belt drawn in over the last ounce of
food, we saw our pick strike gold. Joy at our release from a lifetime of
frustration knew no bounds. The newcomer feels he has struck something better
than gold. He may not see at once that he has barely scratched a limitless lode
which will pay dividends only if he mines it for the rest of his life and
insists on giving away the entire product."
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pp. 128-129
Copyright 1967
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
*~*^Big
Book
Quote^*~*
"We know that while the alcoholic keeps away from drink,
as he may do for months or years, he reacts much like other men. We are
equally positive that once he takes any alcohol whatever into his
system, something happens, both in the bodily and mental sense, which
makes it virtually impossible for him to stop. The experience of
any alcoholic will abundantly confirm
this."
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition
There Is A Solution, pg.
22
*^Twenty
Four
Hours A
Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
When we
came into A.A., we came to believe in a Power greater than ourselves. We came to
believe in that Divine Principle in the universe which we call God, and to whom
we can turn for help. Each morning we have a quiet time. We ask God for the
power to stay sober for the next twenty-four hours. And each night we thank Him
for helping us to keep sober that day. Do I believe that each man or woman I see
in A.A. is a demonstration of the power of God to change a human being from a
drunkard to a sober person?
Meditation for the Day
I should
pray for faith as a thirsty person prays for water in a desert. Do I know what
it means to feel sure that God will never fail me? Am I as sure of this as I am
sure that I still breathe? I should pray daily and most diligently that my faith
may increase. There is nothing lacking in my life because, really, all I need is
mine, only I lack the faith to know it. I am like a rich person's child who sits
in rags when all around me are stores of all I could desire.
Prayer for the Day
I pray for
the realization that God has everything I need. I pray that I may know that His
power is always available.
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55012
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