Thoughts For The Day~*~Faith ^*^*^ February 5
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~A.A.
Thoughts For The Day~
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Faith
People of faith have a logical idea of what life is all
about. Actually, we used to have no reasonable conception whatever. We
used to amuse ourselves by cynically dissecting spiritual beliefs and
practices when we might have observed that many spiritually-minded
persons of all races, colors and creeds were demonstrating a degree of
stability, happiness and usefulness which we should have sought
ourselves.
c. 2002 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 49
Thought to Consider . . .
Feed your faith and starve your doubts.
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
B I G B O O K
Believing In God Beats Our Old Knowledge
*~*^Just For Today!^*~*
Faith*^Daily
Reflections^*
A GLORIOUS RELEASE
"The minute I stopped arguing, I could begin to see and feel. Right there, Step Two gently and very gradually began to infiltrate my life. I can't say upon what occasion or upon what day I came to believe in a Power greater than myself, but I certainly have that belief now. To acquire it, I had only to stop fighting and practice the rest of A.A.'s program as enthusiastically as I could."
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 27
After years of indulging in a "self-will run riot," Step Two became for me a glorious release from being all alone. Nothing is so painful or insurmountable in my journey now. Someone is always there to share life's burdens with me. Step Two became a reinforcement with God, and I now realize that my insanity and ego were curiously linked. To rid myself of the former, I must give up the latter to one with far broader shoulders than my own.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
*~*^As Bill Sees It^*~*
Humility First
"A.A. is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress."
<<< >>>
"For Dr. Bob, the insatiable craving for alcohol was evidently a physical phenomenon which bedeviled several of his first years in A.A., a time when only days and nights of carrying the message to other alcoholics could cause him to forget about drinking. Although his craving was hard to withstand, it doubtless did account for some part of the intense incentive that went into forming Akron's Group Number One.
c. 2002 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 49
Thought to Consider . . .
Feed your faith and starve your doubts.
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
B I G B O O K
Believing In God Beats Our Old Knowledge
*~*^Just For Today!^*~*
Faith
Step Two: Came to believe
that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to
sanity.
"When we encountered A.A.,
the fallacy of our defiance was revealed. At no time had we asked what God's
will was for us; instead we had been telling Him what it ought to be. No man, we
saw, could believe in God and defy Him, too. Belief meant reliance, not
defiance. In A.A. we saw the fruits of this belief: men and women spared from
alcohol's final catastrophe. We saw them meet and transcend their other pains
and trials. We saw them calmly accept impossible situations, seeking neither to
run nor to recriminate. This was not only faith; it was faith that worked under
all conditions. We soon concluded that whatever price in humility we must pay,
we would pay."
1952, AAWS, Inc.; Printed
2005
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg.
31
A GLORIOUS RELEASE
"The minute I stopped arguing, I could begin to see and feel. Right there, Step Two gently and very gradually began to infiltrate my life. I can't say upon what occasion or upon what day I came to believe in a Power greater than myself, but I certainly have that belief now. To acquire it, I had only to stop fighting and practice the rest of A.A.'s program as enthusiastically as I could."
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 27
After years of indulging in a "self-will run riot," Step Two became for me a glorious release from being all alone. Nothing is so painful or insurmountable in my journey now. Someone is always there to share life's burdens with me. Step Two became a reinforcement with God, and I now realize that my insanity and ego were curiously linked. To rid myself of the former, I must give up the latter to one with far broader shoulders than my own.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
*~*^As Bill Sees It^*~*
Humility First
"A.A. is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress."
<<< >>>
"For Dr. Bob, the insatiable craving for alcohol was evidently a physical phenomenon which bedeviled several of his first years in A.A., a time when only days and nights of carrying the message to other alcoholics could cause him to forget about drinking. Although his craving was hard to withstand, it doubtless did account for some part of the intense incentive that went into forming Akron's Group Number One.
Bob's spiritual release did not come easily; it was to be
painfully slow. It always entailed the hardest kind of work and the sharpest
vigilance."
1. LETTER, 1959
2. A.A. COMES OF AGE, p, 69
*~*^Big Book Quote^*~*
". . . with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave. We found that it is fatal. For when harboring such feelings we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the Spirit. The insanity of alcohol returns and we drink again. And with us, to drink is to die."
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition
How It Works, pg. 66
*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
One thing we learn in A.A. is to take a long view of drinking instead of a short view. When we were drinking we thought more about the pleasure or release that a drink would give us than we did about the consequences that would result from our taking that drink. Liquor looks good from the short view. When we look in a package store window, we see liquor dressed up in its best wrappings, with fancy labels and decorations. They look swell. But have I learned that what's inside those beautiful bottles is just plain poison to me?
Meditation for the Day
I believe that life is a school in which I must learn spiritual things. I must trust in God and He will teach me. I must listen to God and He will speak through my mind. I must commune with Him in spite of all opposition and every obstacle. There will be days when I will hear no voice in my mind and when there will come no intimate heart-to-heart communion. But if I persist, and make a life habit of schooling myself in spiritual things, God will reveal Himself to me in many ways.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may regularly go to school in things of the spirit. I pray that I may grow spiritually by making a practice of these things.
Hazelden Foundation PO Box 176 Center City, MN 55012
1. LETTER, 1959
2. A.A. COMES OF AGE, p, 69
*~*^Big Book Quote^*~*
". . . with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave. We found that it is fatal. For when harboring such feelings we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the Spirit. The insanity of alcohol returns and we drink again. And with us, to drink is to die."
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition
How It Works, pg. 66
*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
One thing we learn in A.A. is to take a long view of drinking instead of a short view. When we were drinking we thought more about the pleasure or release that a drink would give us than we did about the consequences that would result from our taking that drink. Liquor looks good from the short view. When we look in a package store window, we see liquor dressed up in its best wrappings, with fancy labels and decorations. They look swell. But have I learned that what's inside those beautiful bottles is just plain poison to me?
Meditation for the Day
I believe that life is a school in which I must learn spiritual things. I must trust in God and He will teach me. I must listen to God and He will speak through my mind. I must commune with Him in spite of all opposition and every obstacle. There will be days when I will hear no voice in my mind and when there will come no intimate heart-to-heart communion. But if I persist, and make a life habit of schooling myself in spiritual things, God will reveal Himself to me in many ways.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may regularly go to school in things of the spirit. I pray that I may grow spiritually by making a practice of these things.
Hazelden Foundation PO Box 176 Center City, MN 55012
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