*~*^Just For Today!^*~*
"As
this tide offering top public approval swept in, we realized that it could do us
incalculable good or great harm. Everything would depend upon how it was
channeled. We simply couldn't afford to take the chance of letting
self-appointed members present themselves as messiahs representing A.A. before
the whole public. The promoter instinct in us might be our undoing. If even one
publicly got drunk, or was lured into using A.A.'s name for his own purposes,
the damage might be irreparable. At this altitude (press, radio, films, and
television), anonymity - 100 percent anonymity - was the only possible answer.
Here, principles would have to come before personalities, without exception. These experiences taught us that anonymity is real humility at work. It is an
all-pervading spiritual quality which today keynotes A.A. life everywhere."
1981, AAWS
Inc.
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, page
187
*^Daily Reflections^*
AN EVER-GROWING FREEDOM
The Seventh Step is where we make the change in our attitude
which permits us, with humility as our guide, to move out from ourselves toward
others and toward God.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS,
p. 76
When I finally asked God to remove those
things blocking me from Him and the sunlight of the Spirit, I embarked on a
journey more glorious than I ever imagined. I experienced a freedom from those
characteristics that had me wrapped up in myself. Because of this humbling
Step, I feel clean.
I am especially aware of this Step because I'm now
able to be useful to God and to my fellows. I know that He has granted me
strength to do His bidding and has prepared me for anyone, and anything, that
comes my way today. I am truly in His hands, and I give thanks for the joy that
I can be useful today.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
*~*^As Bill Sees
It^*~*
Experimenters
We
agnostics liked A.A. all right, and were quick to say that it had done
miracles. But we recoiled from meditation and prayer as obstinately as the
scientist who refused to perform a certain experiment lest it prove his pet
theory wrong. When we finally did experiment, and unexpected results followed,
we felt different; in fact, we knew different; and so we were sold on meditation
and prayer. And that, we have found, can happen to anybody who tries. It has
been well said that "Almost the only scoffers at prayer are those who never
tried it enough."
TWELVE AND TWELVE, P. 97
*~*^Big Book
Quote^*~*
"We are people who normally would not mix. But there
exists among us a fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which
is indescribably wonderful."
Alcoholics
Anonymous 4th Edition
There Is A Solution, pg.
17
*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*
Thought for the
Day
A.A. members
will tell you that they can look back and clearly see that they were out of
control long before they finally admitted it. Every one of us has gone through
that stage when we wouldn't admit that we were alcoholics. It takes a lot of
punishment to convince us, but one thing is certain. We all know from actual
experience that when it comes to dishing out punishment, John Barleycorn has no
equal. Have I any reservations as to my status as an alcoholic?
Meditation for the
Day
There is a force for good in the world and when you are cooperating with
that force for good, good things happen to you. You have free-will, the choice
to be on the side of right or on the side of wrong. This force for good we call
God's will. God has a purpose for the world and He has a purpose for your life.
He wants you to bring all your desires into oneness with His desires. He can
only work through people. If you try to make God's will your will, you will be
guided by Him. You will be in the stream of goodness, carried along by
everything that is right. You will be on God's side.
Prayer for the
Day
I pray that I may try to make God's will my will. I pray
that I may keep in the stream of goodness in the world.
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55012