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"I realize that all I'm guaranteed in life is today. The poorest person has no less and the wealthiest has no more - each of us has but one day. What we do with it is our own business; how we use it is up to us individually. I feel that I have been restored to health and sanity these past years not through my own efforts nor as a result of anything I may have done, but because I've come to believe - to really believe - that alone I can do nothing. That my own innate selfishness and stubbornness are the evils which, if left unguarded, can drive me to alcohol. I have come to believe that my illness is spiritual as well as physical and mental, and I know that for help in the spiritual sphere I have to turn to a Higher Power."
c. 1976 AAWS
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 473
Thought to Consider . . .
I can't have a better tomorrow if I am thinking about yesterday all the time.
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S I T
Stay In Today
Design for Living
Here was the terrible dilemma in which our friend found himself when he had the extraordinary experience, which as we have already told you, made him a free man.
We, in our turn, sought the
same escape with all the desperation of drowning men. What seemed at first a
flimsy reed, has proved to be the loving and powerful hand of God. A new life
has been given us or, if you prefer, "a design for living" that really
works.
2001 AAWS Inc.
Alcoholics Anonymous, page
28
A SENSE OF BELONGING
Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 105
That's what it is - belonging! After a session of meditation I knew that the feeling I was experiencing was a sense of belonging because I was so relaxed. I felt quieter inside, more willing to discard little irritations. I appreciated my sense of humor. What I also experience in my daily practice is the sheer pleasure of belonging to the creative flow of God's world. How propitious for us that prayer and meditation are written right into our A.A. way of life.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
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High and Low
When our membership was small, we dealt with
"low-bottom cases" only. Many less desperate alcoholics tried A.A., but did not
succeed because they could not make the admission of their hopelessness. In
the following years, this changed. Alcoholics who still had their health, their
families, their jobs, and even two cars in the garage, began to recognize their
alcoholism. As this trend grew, they were joined by young people who were
scarcely more than potential alcoholics. How could people such as these take the
First Step? By going back in our own drinking histories, we showed them that
years before we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking even then
was no mere habit, that it was indeed the beginning of a fatal
progression.
TWELVE AND TWELVE, p. 23
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"The fact is that most
alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink.
Our so-called will power becomes practically nonexistent. We are unable, at
certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the
memory of the suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago. We
are without defense against the first drink."
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition
There Is A
Solution, pg. 24
*^Twenty
Four
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A.A. Thought for the Day
I am less self-centered. The world used to
revolve around me at the center. I cared more about myself, my own needs and
desires, my own pleasure, my own way, than I did about the whole rest of the
world. What happened to me was more important than anything else I could think
of. I was selfishly trying to be happy and therefore I was unhappy most of the
time. I have found that selfishly seeking pleasure does not bring true
happiness. Thinking of myself all the time cut me off from the best in life.
A.A. taught me to care less about myself and more about the other person. Am I
less self-centered?
Meditation for the Day
When something happens to upset you and you are
discouraged, try to feel that life's difficulties and troubles are not intended
to arrest your progress in the spiritual life, but to test your strength and to
increase your determination to keep going. Whatever it is that must be met, you
are to either overcome it or use it. Nothing should daunt you for long, nor
should any difficulty entirely overcome or conquer you. God's strength will
always be there, waiting for you to use it. Nothing can be too great to be
overcome, or if not overcome, then used.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may know that there can be no
failure with God. I pray that with His help I may live a more victorious
life.
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