~A.A.
Thoughts
For
The Day~
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Serenity
"So, here I am, sober. Successful. Serene. Just
a few of the gifts of the program for surrendering, suiting up, and showing
up for life every day. Good days and bad days, reality is a wild ride, and
I wouldn't miss it for the world. I don't question how this program
works. I trust in my God, stay involved in AA service, go to lots of
meetings, work with others, and practice the principles of the Steps to
the best of my willingness each day. I don't know which of these keeps me
sober, and I'm not about to try to find out. It's worked for quite a few
days now, so I think I'll try it again tomorrow."
c. 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous
Fourth Edition, p. 337
Thought
to Consider . . .
Serenity isn't freedom from the storm; it is peace within
the storm.
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
K I S S = Keep It Simple;
Surrender
*~*^Just
For
Today!^*~*
"I think now that this
thoroughly unsuccessful Twelfth Step effort (I pray H. may be in A.A. somewhere
by now) helped me. I've never since stopped being aware of the fact that
as an alcoholic I had better not set my sights on being just like everybody
else, just as ordinary, just as unleavened. As a matter of fact, I don't really
know anything about being ordinary that is, nonalcoholic so I ought not to set
up some phony idea in my mind about normal living."
1973 AAWS, Inc.; Came to
Believe
30th printing 2004, pg.
117
*^Daily
Reflections^*
TRUE AMBITION
True ambition is not what we thought is was. True
ambition is the deep desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of
God.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p.
124-125
During my
drinking years, my one and only concern was to have my fellow man think highly
of me. My ambition in everything I did was to have the power to be at the
top. My inner self kept telling me something else but I couldn't accept
it. I didn't even allow myself to realize that I wore a mask
continually. Finally, when the mask came off and I cried out to the only
God I could conceive, the Fellowship of A.A., my group and the Twelve Steps were
there. I learned how to change resentments into acceptance, fear into hope
and anger into love. I have learned also, through loving without undo
expectations, through sharing my concerns and caring for my fellow man, that
each day can be joyous and fruitful. I begin and end my day with thanks to
God, who has so generously shed His grace on me.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES,
INC.
*~*^As
Bill
Sees
It^*~*
Random Quote - Daily Acceptance
"Too much of my life has been spent in
dwelling upon the faults of others. This is a most subtle and perverse form of
self-satisfaction, which permits us to remain comfortably unaware of our own
defects. Too often we are heard to say, 'If it weren't for him (or her), how
happy I'd be!'"
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Our very first problem is to accept our
present circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, and the people about us
as they are. This is to adopt a realistic humility without which no genuine
advance can even begin. Again and again, we shall need to return to that
unflattering point of departure. This is an exercise in acceptance that we can
profitably practice every day of our lives. Provided we strenuously avoid
turning these realistic surveys of the facts of life into unrealistic alibis for
apathy or defeatism, they can be the sure foundation upon which increased
emotional health and therefore spiritual progress can be
built.
1. LETTER, 1966
2. GRAPEVINE, MARCH
1962
Copyright 1967 Alcoholics Anonymous World Services,
Inc
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Book
Quote^*~*
"We
try not to indulge in cynicism over the state of the nations, nor do we carry
the world's troubles on our shoulders. When we see a man sinking into the
mire that is alcoholism, we give him first aid and place what we have at his
disposal."
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition
The Family Afterward, pg. 132
*^Twenty
Four
Hours A
Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
When
people come back to A.A. after having a slip, the temptation is strong to say
nothing about it. No other A.A. member should force them to declare themselves.
It is entirely up to them. If they are well grounded in A.A., they will realize
that its up to them to speak up at the next meeting and tell about their slip.
There is no possible evasion of this duty, if they are thoroughly honest and
really desirous of living the A.A. way again. When they have done it, their old
confidence returns. They are home again. Their slip should not be mentioned
again by others. They are again a good member of A.A. Am I tolerant of other
people's mistakes?
Meditation for the Day
It is in the union of a soul with God that
strength, new life, and spiritual power come. Bread sustains the body but we
cannot live by bread alone. To try to do the will of God is the meat and support
of true living. We feed on that spiritual food. Soul starvation comes from
failing to do so. The world talks about bodies that are undernourished. What of
the souls that are undernourished? Strength and peace come from partaking of
spiritual food.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may
not try to live by bread alone. I pray that my spirit may live by trying to do
the will of God as I understand it.
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