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Change
"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 AA as a whole, it has long since been found out that we cannot stand still and look the other way."
Bill W., Box 1980 The AA Grapevine, July 1965
As Bill Sees It, p. 115
Thought to Consider . . .
There is no progress without change.
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CHANGE
Choosing Honesty Allows New Growth Everyday
"'If I keep on turning my
life and my will over to the care of Something or Somebody else, what will
become of me? I'll look like the hole in the doughnut.' This, of course,
is the process by which instinct and logic always seek to bolster egotism, and
so frustrate spiritual development. The trouble is that this kind of thinking
takes no real account of the facts. And the facts seem to be these: The more we
become willing to depend upon a Higher Power, the more independent we actually
are. Therefore dependence, as A.A. practices it, is really a means to gaining
true independence of the spirit."
1952, AAWS, Inc.;
Printed 2005
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg.
36
REAL INDEPENDENCE
The more we become willing to depend upon a Higher Power, the more independent we actually are.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 36
I start with a little willingness to trust God and He causes that willingness to grow. The more willingness I have, the more trust I gain, and the more trust I gain, the more willingness I have. My dependence on God grows as my trust in Him grows. Before I became willing, I depended on myself for all my needs and I was restricted by my incompleteness. Through my willingness to depend upon my Higher Power, whom I choose to call God, all my needs are provided for by Someone Who knows me better than I know myself - even the needs I may not realize, as well as the ones yet to come. Only Someone Who knows me that well could bring me to be myself and to help me fill the need in someone else that only I am meant to fill. There never will be another exactly like me. And that is real independence.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
*~*^As Bill Sees It^*~*
R.S.V.P. - Yes or No?
Usually, we do not avoid a place where there is
drinking - if we have a legitimate reason for being there. That includes bars,
night clubs, dances, receptions, weddings, even plain ordinary parties. You
will note that we made an important qualification. Therefore, ask yourself,
"Have I any good social, business, or personal reason for going to this place?
Or am I expecting to steal a little vicarious pleasure from the atmosphere?"
Then go or stay away, whichever seems better. But be sure you are on solid
spiritual ground before you start and that your motive in going is thoroughly
good. Do not think of what you will get out of the occasion. Think of what you
can bring to it. If you are shaky, you had better work with another alcoholic
instead!
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pp. 101-102
Copyright 1967
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc
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"When we became alcoholics,
crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to
fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is
nothing. God either is or He isn't."
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition
We Agnostics, pg.
53
*^Twenty
Four
Hours A
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A.A. Thought for the Day
When we alcoholics first
come into A.A. and we face the fact that we must spend the rest of our life
without liquor, it often seems like an impossibility to us. So A.A. tells us to
forget about the future and take it one day at a time. All we really have is
now. We have no past time and no future time. As the saying goes: "Yesterday is
gone, forget it; tomorrow never comes, don't worry; today is here, get busy."
All we have is the present. The past is gone forever and the future never comes.
When tomorrow gets here, it will be today. Am I living one day at a time?
Meditation for the Day
Persistence is necessary if you are to
advance in spiritual things. By persistent prayer, persistent, firm, and simple
trust, you achieve the treasures of the spirit. By persistent practice, you can
eventually obtain joy, peace, assurance, security, health, happiness, and
serenity. Nothing is too great, in the spiritual realm, for you to obtain, if
you persistently prepare yourself for it.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may persistently carry out my
spiritual exercises every day. I pray that I may strive for peace and
serenity.
Hazelden Foundation PO Box 176 Center City, MN
55012
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