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Thoughts
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The Day~
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Great Reality
"Deep down in every man, woman,
and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by
calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other
it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous
demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man
himself. We finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part
of our make-up, just as much as the feeling we have for a friend.
Sometimes we had to search fearlessly, but He was there. He was as
much a fact as we were. We found the Great Reality deep down within us.
In the last analysis it is only there that He may be found. It was so
with us."
c.1976AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p.
55
Thought
to Consider . . .
God
seldom becomes a reality until God becomes a necessity.
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P R O G R A M = People Relying On God Relay A
Message
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Our Twelfth Step - carrying the message - is the basic service that the A.A. Fellowship gives; this is our principal aim and the main reason for our existence. Therefore, A.A. is more than a set of principles; it is a society of alcoholics in action. We must carry the message, else we ourselves can wither and those who haven't been given the truth may die.
Hence, an A.A. service is anything whatever that helps us to reach a fellow sufferer - ranging all the way from the Twelfth Step itself to a ten-cent phone call and a cup of coffee, and to A.A.'s General Service Office for national and international action. The sum total of all these services is our Third Legacy of Service.
Services
include meeting places, hospital cooperation, and intergroup offices; they mean
pamphlets, books, and good publicity of almost every description. They call for
committees, delegates, trustees, and conferences. And, not to be forgotten, they
need voluntary money contributions from within the
Fellowship.
[Bill W., 1951]
2007, AAWS, Inc., AA Service Manual, page
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