Thoughts For The Day~*~Working With Others ^*^*^ September 19
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Working With Others
"Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to
see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship
grow up about you, to have a host of friends - this is an experience you
must not miss. We know you will not want to miss it."
c. 1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p.
89
Thought to Consider . . .
We are not our thoughts, emotions, or urges.
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S L I P
Sobriety Loses Its Priority
That was, with me, the beginning of a new life. It would be
difficult, if not impossible, for me to put into words the change that has taken
place in me. I have since learned that with many members the change has been
almost instantaneous. This was not the case with me. I was tremendously inspired
at first, but my basic thinking was not altered that evening nor did I expect
any profound change. I felt that while the spiritual aspect of what these men
had was not for me, I did believe strongly in the emphasis they put on the need
to help others. I felt that if I could have the inspiration of these gatherings
and if I could have an opportunity to try to help others that the two together
would reinforce my own will power and thus be of tremendous assistance. But
gradually, in a manner I cannot explain, I began to re-examine the beliefs I had
thought beyond criticism. Almost imperceptibly my whole attitude toward life
underwent a silent revolution. I lost many worries and gained confidence. I
found myself saying and thinking things that a short time ago I would have
condemned as platitudes! A belief in the basic spirituality of life has grown
and with it belief in a supreme and guiding power for good.
2003 AAWS Inc.
Experience, Strength & Hope
Stories from
the first three editions of
Alcoholics Anonymous, pages
106-107
ACCEPTANCE
We admitted we couldn't lick alcohol with our own remaining resources, and so we accepted the further fact that dependence upon a Higher Power (if only our A.A. group) could do this hitherto impossible job. The moment we were able to accept these facts fully, our release from the alcohol compulsion had begun.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 109
Freedom came to me only with my acceptance that I could turn my will and my life over to the care of my Higher Power, whom I call God. Serenity seeped into the chaos of my life when I accepted that what I was going through was life, and that God would help me through my difficulties - and much more, as well. Since then He has helped me through all of my difficulties! When I accept situations as they are, not as I wish them to be, then I can begin to grow and have serenity and peace of mind.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
Individual Responsibilities
"Let us emphasize that our reluctance to fight one another, or anybody else, is not counted as some special virtue which entitles us A.A.'s to feel superior to other people. Nor does this reluctance mean that the members of A.A. are going to back away from their individual responsibilities as citizens. Here they should feel free to act as they see the right upon the public issues of our times. But when it comes to A.A. as a whole, that's quite a different matter. As a group we do not enter into public controversy, because we are sure that our Society will perish if we do."
TWELVE AND TWELVE, p. 177
Alcoholics Anonymous 4th Edition
Working With Others, pg. 99
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