*~*^Just
For
Today!^*~*
Choices
From "'Use
Me'":
"The voice that answered was
calm and sweet beyond description. 'You have the strength. All you have to do is
use it. I am here. I am with you. Use Me.'
I was born again that day.
From that moment, the compulsion was lifted. In the eleven years since, I have
found in sobriety what I was searching for in the bottle. I wanted peace; God
gave me peace. I wanted acceptance; God accepted me. I wanted to be loved; God
assured me that He loved me."
1973 AAWS, Inc.
Came to
Believe, 30th printing 2004, pg.
33
*^Daily
Reflections^*
ENTERING A NEW DIMENSION
In the late stages of our drinking, the
will to resist has fled. Yet when we admit complete defeat and when we
become entirely ready to try A.A. principles, our obsession leaves us and we
enter a new dimension - freedom under God as we understand Him.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 283
I am
fortunate to be among the ones who have had this awesome transformation in my
life. When I entered the doors of A.A., alone and desperate, I had been
beaten into willingness to believe anything I heard. One of the things I
heard was, "This could be your last hangover, or you can keep going round and
round." The man who said this obviously was a whole lot better off than
I. I liked the idea of admitting defeat and I have been free ever
since! My heart heard what my mind never could: "Being powerless over
alcohol is no big deal." I'm free and I'm grateful! Copyright
1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
*~*^As
Bill
Sees
It^*~*
Essence of Growth
"Let us never fear needed change. Certainly we
have to discriminate between changes for worse and changes for better. But once
a need becomes clearly apparent in an individual, in a group, or in A.A. as a
whole, it has long since been found out that we cannot stand still and look the
other way. The essence of all growth is a willingness to change for the
better and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility
this entails."
GRAPEVINE, JULY 1965
*~*^Big
Book
Quote^*~*
"There is a principle which
is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and
which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance that principle
is contempt prior to investigation."
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition
Appendice II,
Spiritual Experience, pg. 568
*^Twenty
Four
Hours A
Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
I don't believe that A.A. works
because I read it in a book or because I hear people say so. I believe it
because I see people getting sober and staying sober. An actual demonstration is
what convinces me. When I see the change in people, I can't help believing that
A.A. works. We could listen to talk about A.A. all day and still not believe it,
but when we see it work, we have to believe it. Seeing is believing. Do I see
A.A. work every day?
Meditation for the Day
Try saying, "God
bless her (or him)" of anyone who is in disharmony with you. Also say it of
those who are in trouble through their own fault. Say it, willing that showers
of blessings may fall upon them. Let God do the blessing. Leave to God the
necessary correcting or disciplining. You should only desire blessing for them.
Leave God's work to God. Occupy yourself with the task that He gives you to do.
God's blessing will also break down all your own difficulties and build up all
your successes.
Prayer for the Day
I pray
that I may use God's goodness so that it will be a blessing to others. I pray
that I may accept God's blessing so that I will have harmony, beauty, joy, and
happiness.
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