Thoughts For The Day~*~Miracle ^*^*^ December 18
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~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~
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Miracle
And
we have ceased fighting anything or anyone -- even alcohol. For by this
time sanity will have returned. We will seldom be interested in
liquor. If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame. We react
sanely and normally, and we will find that this has happened
automatically. We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been
given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That
is the miracle of it.
c. 1976 2001 AAWS
Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 84-5
Thought to Consider . . .
Don't give up before the miracle happens.
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
H O W = Honest, Open, Willing.
*~*^Just For Today!^*~*
Bill Undercover
AA History
Among the odd jobs that Bill cited in Bill's Story was his mention of
working on a farm for a month. During 1925, Bill and Lois took off on a
trip down the east coast inspecting companies to see if their stock
might be good Wall Street investments. They camped up and down the coast
and carried all of their belongings in the Harley-Davidson motorcycle
and sidecar that Bill had purchased. At the end of April 1925, they
stopped at the Goldfoot family dairy farm in Scotia, New York near
Schenectady. Mr. Goldfoot had two sons, both of whom worked for General
Electric, a company that Bill was able to penetrate for investment
investigation by befriending some of their employees during that month.
They also worked for the Goldfoots to earn some money to continue on
this most successful trip. Lois later acknowledged that she hadn't cared
if they earned a cent on the trip. She had been hoping the fresh air
and the hobo lifestyle would help Bill slow up on his drinking.
*^Daily Reflections^*
HONESTY WITH NEWCOMERS
Tell him exactly what happened to you. Stress the spiritual feature freely.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 93
The
marvel of A.A. is that I tell only what happened to me. I don't waste
time offering advice to potential newcomers, for if advice worked,
nobody would get to A.A. All I have to do is show what has brought me
sobriety and what has changed my life. If I fail to stress the
spiritual feature of A.A.'s program, I am being dishonest. The newcomer
should not be given a false impression of sobriety. I am sober only
through the grace of my Higher Power, and that makes it possible for me
to share with others.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
*~*^As Bill Sees It^*~*
Random Quote - Troubles of Our Own Making
Selfishness
- self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles.
Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and
self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate.
Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably
find that at some time in the past we have made decisions based on self
which later placed us in a position to be hurt.
So our troubles,
we think, are basically of our own making. They arise out of ourselves,
and the alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run riot, though
he usually doesn't think so. Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid
of this selfishness. We must, or it kills us!
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p- 62
*~*^Big Book Quote^*~*
"But
there was always the curious mental phenomenon that parallel with our
sound reasoning there inevitably ran some insanely trivial excuse for
taking the first drink. Our sound reasoning failed to hold us in check.
The insane idea won out. Next day we would ask ourselves, in all
earnestness and sincerity, how it could have happened."
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition
More About Alcoholism, pg. 37
*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
Unless
we have the key of faith to unlock the meaning of life, we are lost. We
do not choose faith because it is one way for us, but because it is the
only way. Many have failed and will fail. For we cannot live
victoriously without faith; we are at sea without a rudder or an anchor,
drifting on the sea of life. Wayfarers without a home. Our souls are
restless until they find rest in God. Without faith, our lives are a
meaningless succession of unrelated happenings, without rhyme or reason.
Have I come to rest in faith?
Meditation for the Day
This
vast universe around us, including this wonderful earth on which we
live, was once perhaps only a thought in the mind of God. The nearer the
astronomers and the physicists get to the ultimate composition of all
things, the nearer the universe approaches a mathematical formula, which
is thought. The universe may be the thought of the Great Thinker. We
must try to think God's thoughts after Him. We must try to get guidance
from the Divine Mind as to what His intention is for the world and what
part we can have in carrying out that intention.
Prayer for the Day
I
pray that I may not worry over the limitations of my human mind. I pray
that I may live as though my mind were a reflection of the Divine Mind.
Hazelden Foundation PO Box 176 Center City, MN 55012
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