Thoughts For The Day~*~Concepts ^*^*^ October 26
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~A.A.
Thoughts
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Concepts
"The word God still aroused a certain antipathy. When the
thought was expressed that there might be a God personal to me this feeling
was intensified. I didn't like the idea . . . My friend suggested what
then seemed a novel idea. He said, 'Why don't you choose
your own conception of God?' That statement hit me hard. It melted the
icy intellectual mountain in whose shadow I had lived and shivered many
years. I stood in the sunlight at last."
Bill W.
c.1976 AAWS
Alcoholics
Anonymous, p. 12
Thought
to Consider . . .
God seldom becomes a reality until God becomes a
necessity.
G I F T
God Is Forever There
*~*^Just For Today!^*~*
Force
"In the whole measure of my
life, the benefits of the A.A. experience have far outweighed the damages of
active alcoholism. What was it that overcame my pride (for the moment) and made
me reachable? The best answer I can find is what my father used to call 'the
life force.' It is in all of us, I believe; it animates all living things;
it keeps the galaxies wheeling."
New York, New York
USA
1973 AAWS, Inc.
Came to Believe,
pgs. 84-85
ONE ULTIMATE AUTHORITY
For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority - a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 132
When I am chosen to carry some small responsibility for my fellows, I ask that God grant me the patience, open-mindedness, and willingness to listen to those I would lead. I must remind myself that I am the trusted servant of others, not their "governor," "teacher," or "instructor." God guides my words and my actions, and my responsibility is to heed His suggestions. Trust is my watchword, I trust others who lead. In the Fellowship of A.A., I entrust God with the ultimate authority of "running the show."
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
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Bill
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Anonymity and Sobriety
"As the A.A. groups multiplied, so did anonymity
problems. Enthusiastic over the spectacular recovery of a brother alcoholic,
we'd sometimes discuss those intimate and harrowing aspects of his case meant
for his sponsor's ear alone. The aggrieved victim would then rightly declare
that his trust had been broken. When such stories got into circulation
outside of A.A., the loss of confidence in our anonymity promise was severe. It
frequently turned people from us. Clearly, every A.A. member's name - and story,
too - had to be confidential, if he
wished."
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"We now fully realize that 100 per
cent personal anonymity before the public is just as vital to the life of A.A.
as 100 per cent sobriety is to the life of each and every member. This is not
the counsel of fear; it is the prudent voice of long
experience."
1. TWELVE AND TWELVE, p. 185
2. A.A COMES OF AGE,
p. 293
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". . . we have ceased fighting anything
or anyone even alcohol."
Alcoholics
Anonymous, 4th Edition
Into Action, pg.
84
*^Twenty
Four
Hours A
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A.A. Thought for the Day
Sixth, I
have A.A. meetings to go to, thank God. Where would I go without them? Where
would I be without them? Where would I find the sympathy, the understanding, the
fellowship, the companionship? Nowhere else in the world. I have come home. I
have found the place where I belong. I no longer wander alone over the face of
the earth. I am at peace and at rest. What a great gift has been given me by
A.A.! I do not deserve it. But it is nevertheless mine. I have a home at last. I
am content. Do I thank God every day for the A.A.
fellowship?
Meditation for the
Day
Walk all
the way with another person and with God. Do not go part of the way and then
stop. Do not push God so far into the background that He has no effect on your
life. Walk all the way with Him. Make a good companion of God, by praying to Him
often during the day. Do not let your contact with Him be broken for too long a
period. Work all the way with God and with other people, along the path of life,
wherever it may lead you.
Prayer for the Day
I pray
that I may walk in companionship with God along the way. I pray that I may keep
my feet upon the path that leads upward.
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