~A.A. Thoughts
For The
Day~
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Affirmation!
"Taking advantage of technological advances, for
example, A.A. members with computers can participate in meetings online,
sharing with fellow alcoholics across the country or around the world.
Fundamentally, though, the difference between an electronic meeting and
the home group around the corner is only one of format. In any
meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and hope with each
other, in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics. Modem-to-modem or face-to-face, A.A.'s speak the language of the heart
in all its power and simplicity."
c. 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous
Foreword to Fourth
Edition, p. xxiv
Thought
to Consider . . .
A.A. is
where "we" make miracles.
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
P A I D
Pitiful And Incomprehensible Demoralization
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For
Today!^*~*
Baffling
Feature
From: "More
About Alcoholism"
For
those who are unable to drink moderately the question is how to stop altogether.
We are assuming, of course, that the reader desires to stop. Whether such a
person can quit upon a nonspiritual basis depends upon the extent to which he
has already lost the power to choose whether he will drink or not. Many of us
felt that we had plenty of character. There was a tremendous urge to cease
forever. Yet we found it impossible. This is the baffling feature of alcoholism
as we know it - this utter inability to leave it alone, no matter how great the
necessity or the wish.
2001 AAWS Inc.
Alcoholics Anonymous, page
34
*^Daily
Reflections^*
OVERCOMING LONELINESS
Almost without exception, alcoholics
are tortured by loneliness. Even before our drinking got bad and people
began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the feeling that we didn't
quite belong.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 90
The agonies
and the void that I often felt inside occur less and less frequently in my life
today. I have learned to cope with solitude. It is only when I am
alone and calm that I am able to communicate with God, for He cannot reach me
when I am in turmoil. It is good to maintain contact with God at all
times, but it is absolutely essential that, when everything seems to go wrong, I
maintain that contact through prayer and meditation.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES,
INC.