Thoughts For The Day~*~Acceptance ^*^*^ October 13
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Acceptance
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition p. 417
Copyright 1976 A.A.W.S. Inc.
Thought to Consider . . .
Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation, then deciding what you're going to do about it.
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
F E A R
Forget Everything and Run
*~*^Just For Today!^*~*
Thus we grow. And so can you, though you be but one man with this book in your hand. We believe and hope it contains all you will need to begin.
We know what you are
thinking. You are saying to yourself: "I'm jittery and alone. I couldn't do
that." But you can. You forget that you have just now tapped a source of power
much greater than yourself. To duplicate, with such backing, what we have
accomplished is only a matter of willingness, patience and
labor.
2001 AAWS Inc.
Alcoholics Anonymous, pages
162-163
UNREMITTING INVENTORIES
Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear. When these crop up, we ask God at once to remove them. We discuss them with someone immediately and make amends quickly if we have harmed anyone. Then we resolutely turn our thoughts to someone we can help.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84
The immediate admission of wrong thoughts or actions is a tough task for most human beings, but for recovering alcoholics like me it is difficult because of my propensity toward ego, fear and pride. The freedom the A.A. program offers me becomes more abundant when, through unremitting inventories of myself, I admit, acknowledge and accept responsibility for my wrong-doing. It is possible then for me to grow into a deeper and better understanding of humility. My willingness to admit when the fault is mine facilitates the progression of my growth and helps me to become more understanding and helpful to others.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
Mastering Resentments
"We began to see that the world and its people had really dominated us. Under that unhappy condition, the wrongdoing of others, fancied or real, had power to actually kill us, because we could be driven back to drink through resentment. We saw that these resentments must be mastered, but how? We could not wish them away.
This was our course: We realized that the people who wronged us were perhaps spiritually sick. So we asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we would cheerfully grant a sick friend.
Today, we avoid retaliation or argument. We cannot treat sick people that way. If we do, we destroy our chance of being helpful. We cannot be helpful to all people, but at least God will show us how to take a kindly and tolerant view of each and every one."
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pp. 66-67
*~*^Big Book Quote^*~*
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition
Into Action, pg. 84
*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*
A.A. Thought For The Day
A.A. work is one hundred percent voluntary. It depends on each
and every one of our members to volunteer to do his or her share. Newcomers
can sit on the sidelines until they have got over their nervousness and
confusion. They have a right to be helped by all, until they can stand on
their own feet. But the time inevitably comes when they have to speak up
and volunteer to do their share in meetings and in twelfth-step work. Until
that time comes, they are not a vital part of A.A. They are only in the
process of being assimilated. Has my time come to volunteer?
Meditation for the Day
God's Kingdom on earth is growing
slowly, like a seed in the ground. In the growth of His Kingdom, there is
always progress among the few who are out ahead of the crowd. Keep
striving for something better and there can be no stagnation in your life.
Eternal life, abundant life is yours for the seeking. Do not misspend time
over past failures. Count the lessons learned from failures as rungs upon
the ladder of progress. Press onward toward the goal.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I
may be willing to grow. I pray that I may keep stepping up on the rungs of
the ladder of life.
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