D E A D
Drinking Ends All Dreams
*~*^Just
For
Today!^*~*
Obedience
Tradition One: Our common welfare should come first; personal
recovery depends upon A.A. unity.
"Every newcomer, every friend
who looks at A.A. for the first time is greatly puzzled. They see liberty
verging on license, yet they recognize at once that A.A. has an irresistible
strength of purpose and action . . . The A.A. member has to conform to the
principles of recovery. His life depends upon obedience to spiritual
principles."
1981, Twelve Steps and
Twelve Traditions, pages 129-30
*^Daily
Reflections^*
"WE PAUSE ... AND ASK"
As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful and
ask for the right thought or action.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.
87
Today I humbly ask my Higher Power for the
grace to find the space between my impulse and my action; to let flow a cooling
breeze when I would respond with heat; to interrupt fierceness with gentle
peace; to accept the moment which allows judgment to become discernment; to
defer to silence when my tongue would rush to attack or defend.
I
promise to watch for every opportunity to turn toward my Higher Power for
guidance. I know where this power is: it resides within me, as clear as a
mountain brook, hidden in the hills - it is the unsuspected Inner Resource.
I thank my Higher Power for this world of light and truth I see when I
allow it to direct my vision. I trust it today and hope it trusts me to
make all effort to find the right thought or action
today.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES,
INC.
*~*^As
Bill
Sees
It^*~*
Light from a Prayer
"God grant us the serenity to accept the things we
cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know
the difference."
<<< >>>
We treasure our
"Serenity Prayer" because it brings a new light to us that can dissipate our
oldtime and nearly fatal habit of fooling ourselves. In the radiance of this
prayer we see that defeat, rightly accepted, need be no disaster. We now know
that we do not have to run away, nor ought we again try to overcome adversity by
still another bulldozing power drive that can only push up obstacles before us
faster than they can be taken down.
GRAPEVINE, MARCH 1962
*~*^Big
Book
Quote^*~* "If, when you honestly want
to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking, you have little
control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic. If that be the
case, you may be suffering from an illness which only a spiritual experience
will conquer."
Alcoholics
Anonymous, 4th Edition
We Agnostics, pg.
44
*^Twenty
Four
Hours A
Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
In A.A.
we're all through with lying, hangovers, remorse, and wasting money. When we
were drinking, we were only half alive. Now that we're trying to live decent,
honest, unselfish lives, we're really alive. Life has a new meaning for us, so
that we can really enjoy it. We feel that we're some use in the world. We're on
the right side of the fence, instead of on the wrong side. We can look the world
in the face instead of hiding in alleys. We come into A.A. to get sober and if
we stay long enough, we learn a new way of living. Am I convinced that no matter
how much fun I got out of drinking, that life never was as good as the life I
can build in A.A.?
Meditation for the Day
I want to be at one with the Divine Spirit of the
universe. I will set my deepest affections on things spiritual, not on things
material. As we think, so we are. So I will think of and desire that which will
help, not hinder, my spiritual growth. I will try to be at one with God. No
human aspiration can reach higher than this.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may think love, and love will
surround me. I pray that I may think health, and health will come to
me.
Hazelden Foundation PO Box 176 Center City, MN
55012
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