Thoughts For The Day~*~AA Unity ^*^*^ February 18
Transitions Daily
Though many of us have had to struggle for sobriety, never yet has this Fellowship had to struggle for lost unity. Consequently, we sometimes take this one great gift for granted. We forget that, should we lose our unity, the millions of alcoholics who still "do not know" might never get their chance.
Bill W., Letter, 1949
c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 297
Thought to Consider . . .
We can make a difference. Without you, there is no "we."
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
A A's-R-US = Alcoholics Anonymous Recovery Unity Service
*~*^Just For Today!^*~*
Paybacks
"Most alcoholics owe money.
We do not dodge our creditors. Telling them what we are trying to do, we make no
bones about our drinking; they usually know it anyway, whether we think so or
not. Nor are we afraid of disclosing our alcoholism on the theory it may cause
financial harm. Approached in this way, the most ruthless creditor will
sometimes surprise us. . . .We let these people know we are sorry. Our drinking
has made us slow to pay. We must lose our fear of creditors no matter how far we
have to go, for we are liable to drink if we are afraid to face
them."
2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth
Edition
Alcoholics Anonymous, pg.
78
OUR PATHS ARE OUR OWN
. . .there was nothing left for us but to pick up the simple kit of spiritual tools laid at our feet.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 25
My first attempt at the Steps was one of obligation and necessity, which resulted in a deep feeling of discouragement in the face of all those adverbs: courageously; completely; humbly; directly; and only. I considered Bill W. fortunate to have gone through such a major, even sensational, spiritual experience. I had to discover, as time went on, that my path was my own. After a few twenty-four hours in the A.A. Fellowship, thanks especially to the sharing of members in the meetings, I understood that everyone gradually finds his or her own pace in moving through the Steps. Through progressive means, I try to live according to these suggested principles. As a result of these Steps, I can say today that my attitude towards life, people, and towards anything having to do with God, has been transformed and improved.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
Out of Defeat . . .Strength
If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion that some day we will be immune to alcohol.
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Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one's old life as a condition for finding a new one.
1. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 33
2. A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 46
Copyright®1967
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
*~*^Big Book Quote^*~*
"My friend
suggested what then seemed a novel idea. He said, 'Why don't you choose your
own conception of God?'
That statement hit me hard. It melted the icy
intellectual mountain in whose shadow I had lived and shivered many years. I
stood in the sunlight at last.
It was only a matter of being willing
to believe in a Power greater than myself. Nothing more was required of me to
make my beginning. I saw that growth could start from that
point."
Alcoholics
Anonymous, 4th Edition
Bill's Story, pg.
12
*^Twenty
Four
Hours A
Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
After I
became an alcoholic, alcohol poisoned my love for my family and friends, it
poisoned my ambition, it poisoned my self respect. It poisoned my whole life,
until I met A.A. My life is happier now than it has been for a long time. I
don't want to commit suicide. So with the help of God and A.A., I'm not going to
take any more of that alcoholic poison into my system. And I'm going to keep
training my mind never even to think of liquor again in any way except as a
poison. Do I believe that liquor will poison my life if I ever touch it again?
Meditation for the Day
I will link up my frail nature
with the limitless Divine Power. I will link my life with the Divine Force for
Good in the world. It is not the passionate appeal that gains the Divine
attention as much as the quiet placing of the difficulty and worry in the Divine
Hands. So I will trust God like a child who places its tangled skein of wool in
the hands of a loving parent to unravel. We please God more by our unquestioning
confidence than by imploring Him for help.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I
may put all my difficulties in God's hands and leave them there. I pray that I
may fully trust God to take care of them.
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