Thoughts For The Day~*~Self-Restraint ^*^*^ August 11
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~A.A.
Thoughts
For
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Self-Restraint
"We enjoy certain inherent advantages which should
make our task of self-restraint relatively easy. There is no really good
reason for anyone to object if a great many drunks get sober. Nearly
everyone can agree that this is a good thing. If, in the process, we are
forced to develop a certain amount of honesty, humility, and tolerance,
who is going to kick about that? If we recognize that religion is the
province of the clergy and the practice of medicine is for doctors, we
can helpfully cooperate with both. Certainly there is little basis for
controversy in these areas. It is a fact that A.A. has not the slightest
reform or political complexion. We try to pay our own expenses, and
we strictly mind our single purpose."
Bill W.
1962 AAWS Twelve
Concepts for World Service
26th Printing, p. 69
Thought to Consider . . .
We are not living just to be sober; we are living
to learn, to serve, and to love.
K I S S
Keep It Simple, Sweetheart
*~*^Just For Today!^*~*
So Touchy
Besides a seeming inability to accept much on faith, we
often found ourselves handicapped by obstinacy, sensitiveness, and unreasoning
prejudice. Many of us have been so touchy that even casual reference to
spiritual things made us bristle with antagonism. This sort of thinking had to
be abandoned. Though some of us resisted, we found no great difficulty in
casting aside such feelings. Faced with alcoholic destruction, we soon became as
open minded on spiritual matters as we had tried to be on other questions. In
this respect alcohol was a great persuader. It finally beat us into a state of
reasonableness. Sometimes this was a tedious process; we hope no one else will
be prejudiced for as long as some of us were.
2001 AAWS Inc.
Alcoholics Anonymous pages
47-48
*^Daily
Reflections^*
REMOVING "THE GROUND GLASS"
The moral inventory is a cool examination of
the damages that occurred to us during life and a sincere effort to look at them
in a true perspective. This has the effect of taking the ground glass out
of us, the emotional substance that still cuts and inhibits.
AS BILL
SEES IT, p. 140
My Eighth Step list used to drag me
into a whirlpool of resentment. After four years of sobriety, I was
blocked by denial connected with an ongoing abusive relationship. The
argument between fear and pride eased as the words of the Step moved from my
head to my heart. For the first time in years I opened my box of paints
and poured out an honest rage, an explosion of reds and blacks and
yellows. As I looked at the drawing, tears of joy and relief flowed down
my cheeks. In my disease, I had given up my art, a self-inflicted
punishment far greater than any imposed from outside. In my recovery, I
learned that the pain of my defects is the very substance God uses to cleanse my
character and to set me free.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES,
INC.
*~*^As
Bill
Sees
It^*~*
One Fellowship - Many Faiths
"As a society we
must never become so vain as to suppose that we are authors and inventors of a
new religion. We will humbly reflect that every one of A.A.'s principles has
been borrowed from ancient sources."
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"A minister in Thailand wrote, 'We
took A.A.'s Twelve Steps over to the largest Buddhist monastery in this province, and
the head priest said, 'Why, these Steps are fine! For us as Buddhists, it might
be slightly more acceptable if you had inserted the word 'good' in your Steps
instead of 'God.' Nevertheless, you say that it is God as you understand Him,
and that must certainly includes the good. Yes, A.A.'s Twelve Steps will surely
be accepted by the Buddhists around here.'"
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"St. Louis oldtimers recall how Father Edward Dowling helped start their
group; it turned out to be largely Protestant, but this fazed him not a bit."
A.A. COMES OF AGE - 1. p. 231 - 2. p. 81 - 3. p. 37
*~*^Big
Book
Quote^*~*
"Outsiders are sometimes shocked when we
burst into merriment over a seemingly tragic experience out of the past. But
why shouldn't we laugh? We have recovered, and have been given the power to
help others."
Alcoholics
Anonymous 4th Edition
The Family Afterward pg.
132
*^Twenty
Four
Hours A
Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
"While
alcoholics keep strictly away from drink, they react to life much like other
people. But the first drink sets the terrible cycle in motion. Alcoholics
usually have no idea why they take the first drink. Some drinkers have
excuses with which they are satisfied, but in their hearts they really
do not know why they do it. The truth is that at some point in their
drinking they have passed into a state where the most powerful desire to
stop drinking is of no avail." Am I satisfied that I have passed my
tolerance point for alcohol?
Meditation for the Day
He who made the ordered world out of chaos and set
the stars in their courses and made each plant to know its season, He
can bring peace and order out of your private chaos if you will let Him.
God is watching over you, too, to bless you and care for you. Out of the
darkness He is leading you to light, out of unrest to rest, out of disorder
to order, out of faults and failure to success. You belong to God and your
affairs are His affairs and can be ordered by Him if you are willing.
Prayer for the Day
I
pray that I may be led out of disorder into order. I pray that I may be led
out of failure into success.
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