Thoughts For The Day~*~Meetings ^*^*^ April 27
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"Sobriety and a plan for living that produces a personality change and a spiritual awakening are imperative. Through A.A., many receive the needed change and awakening just by trying to live by A.A. principles and with A.A. people. We do this by going to many A.A. meetings with an open mind and a desire to live the good-feeling life without chemicals - liquid or otherwise."
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 459
Thought to Consider . . .
Seven days without an A.A. meeting makes one weak.
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
A B C
Acceptance, Belief, Change
*~*^Just For Today!^*~*
Upkeep
"When my own house is in order, I
find the different parts of my life are more manageable. Stripped from the guilt
and remorse that cloaked my drinking years, I am free to assume my proper role
in the universe, but this condition requires maintenance. I should stop and ask
myself, am I having fun yet? If I find answering that question difficult
or painful, perhaps I'm taking myself too seriously and finding it difficult to
admit that I've strayed from my practice of working the program to keep my house
in order."
1990 AAWS, Inc.
Daily Reflections,
pg.
31
JOYFUL DISCOVERIES
We realize we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order. But obviously you cannot transmit something you haven't got. See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others. This is the Great Fact for us.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 164
Sobriety is a journey of joyful discovery. Each day brings new experience, awareness, greater hope, deeper faith, broader tolerance. I must maintain these attributes or I will have nothing to pass on.
Great events for this recovering alcoholic are the normal everyday joys found in being able to live another day in God's grace.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
*~*^As
Bill
Sees
It^*~*
The Sense of Belonging
"Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and
prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us. We no longer live in a
completely hostile world. We are no longer lost and frightened and
purposeless. The moment we catch even a glimpse of God's will, the moment we
begin to see truth, justice, and love as the real and eternal things in life, we
are no longer deeply disturbed by all the seeming evidence to the contrary that
surrounds us in purely human affairs. We know that God lovingly watches over us.
We know that when we turn to Him, all will be well with us, here and
hereafter."
TWELVE AND TWELVE, P. 105
*~*^Big
Book
Quote^*~*
"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."
Alcoholics
Anonymous 4th Edition
Working With Others, pg.
89
*^Twenty
Four
Hours A
Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
By submitting to God, we are
released from the power of liquor. It has no more hold on us. We are also
released from the things that were holding us down: pride, selfishness, and
fear. And we are free to grow into a new life, which is so much better than the
old life that there's no comparison. This release gives us serenity and peace
with the world. Have I been released from the power of alcohol?
Meditation for the Day
We know God by spiritual vision. We
feel that He is beside us. We feel His presence. Contact with God is not made by
the senses. Spirit-consciousness replaces sight. Since we cannot see God, we
have to perceive Him by spiritual perception. God has to span the physical and
the spiritual with the gift to us of spiritual vision. Many persons, though they
cannot see God, have had a clear spiritual consciousness of Him. We are inside a
box of space and time, but we know there must be something outside of that box,
limitless space, eternity of time, and God.
Prayer for the
Day
I pray that I may
have a consciousness of God's presence. I pray that God will give me spiritual
vision.
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