Thoughts For The Day~*~Responsibility ^*^*^ August 2
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Responsibility
Bill W., November 1957
1988 AAGrapevine
The Language of the Heart, p. 221
Thought to Consider . . .
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
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H O W
Honest, Open-minded and Willing
*~*^Just For Today!^*~*
"The Akron and New York
groups had been voting for months on possible titles [for the Big Book]. This
had become an after-the-meeting form of amusement and interest. The title
'Alcoholics Anonymous' had appeared very early in the discussion, probably in
October, 1938. We do not know who first used these words. After we New Yorkers
had left the Oxford Groups in 1937 we often described ourselves as a 'nameless
bunch of alcoholics.' From this phrase it was only a step to the idea of
'Alcoholics Anonymous.' This was its actual derivation."
2001 AAWS, Inc.
Alcoholics
Anonymous Comes of Age, pg.
165
WE BECOME WILLING . . .
At the moment we are trying to put our lives in order. But this is not an end in itself.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 77
How easily I can become misdirected in approaching the Eighth Step! I wish to be free, somehow transformed by my Sixth and Seventh Step work. Now, more than ever, I am vulnerable to my own self-interest and hidden agenda. I am careful to remember that self-satisfaction, which sometimes comes through the spoken forgiveness of those I have harmed, is not my true objective. I become willing to make amends, knowing that through this process I am mended and made fit to move forward, to know and desire God's will for me.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
Only Try
"In my teens, I had to be an athlete because I was not an athlete. I had to be a musician because I could not carry a tune. I had to be the president of my class in boarding school. I had to be first in everything because in my perverse heart I felt myself the least of God's creatures. I could not accept my deep sense of inferiority, and so I strove to become captain of the baseball team, and I did learn to play the fiddle. Lead I must - or else. This was the "all or nothing" kind of demand that later did me in."
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"I'm glad you are going to try that new job. But make sure that you are only going to 'try.' If you approach the project in the attitude that 'I must succeed, I must not fail, I cannot fail,' then you practically guarantee the flop which in turn will guarantee a drinking relapse. But if you look at the venture as a constructive experiment only, then all should go well."
1. A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 53
2. LETTER, 1958
"Once more: The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink. Except in a few rare cases, neither he nor any other human being can provide such a defense. His defense must come from a Higher Power."
Alcoholics Anonymous 4th Edition
More About Alcoholism, pg. 43
*^Twenty
Four
Hours A
Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
Alcoholics Anonymous has no
quarrel with medicine, psychiatry, or religion. We have great respect for the
methods of each. And we are glad for any success they may have had with
alcoholics. We are desirous always of cooperating with them in every
way. The more doctors, the more psychiatrists, the more clergy and rabbis we
can get to work with us, the better we like it. We have many who take a real
interest in our program and we would like many more. Am I ready to cooperate
with those who take a sincere interest in A.A.?
Meditation for the Day
God is always ready to pour His blessings into our
hearts in generous measure. But like the seed-sowing, the ground must be
prepared before the seed is dropped in. It is our task to prepare the soil.
It is God's to drop the seed. This preparation of the soil means many days
of right living, choosing the right and avoiding the wrong. As you go along,
each day you are better prepared for God's planting, until you reach the
time of harvest. Then you share the harvest with God - the harvest of a
useful and more abundant life.
Prayer for the
Day
I pray that my way of living may be properly
prepared day by day. I pray that I may strive to make myself ready for the
harvest which God has planted in my heart.
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