"Much
to our relief, we discovered we did not need to consider another's conception
of God. Our own conception, however inadequate, was sufficient to make the
approach and to effect a contact with Him. As soon as we admitted the
possible existence of a Creative Intelligence, a Spirit of the Universe
underlying the totality of things, we began to be possessed of a new sense of
power and direction, provided we took other simple
steps."
Alcoholics
Anonymous 4th Edition
We Agnostics, pg.
46
*^Twenty
Four
Hours A
Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
"Offer new prospects friendship and fellowship. Tell them that if
they want to get well you will do anything to help. Burn the idea into the
consciousness of new prospects that they can get well, regardless of anyone
else. Job or no job, spouse or no spouse, they cannot stop drinking as long as
they place dependence on other people ahead of dependence on God. Let no
alcoholic say they cannot recover unless they have their family back. This just
isn't so. Their recovery is not dependent upon other people. It is dependent on
their own relationship to God." Can I recognize all excuses made by a prospect?
Meditation for the Day
The
spiritual life depends upon the Unseen. To live the spiritual life, you must
believe in the Unseen. Try not to lose the consciousness of God's spirit in you
and in others. As a child in its mother's arms, stay sheltered in the
understanding and love of God. God will relieve you of the weight of worry and
care, misery and depression, want and woe, faintness and heartache, if you will
let Him. Lift up your eyes from earth's troubles and view the glory of the
unseen God. Each day try to see more good in people, more of the Unseen in the
seen.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may rest and
abide in the presence of the unseen God. I pray that I may leave my burdens in
His care.
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