~A.A. Thoughts
For
The
Day~
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Higher Power
"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. It was only a matter of being willing
to believe in a Power greater than myself. Nothing more was required of
me to make my beginning."
- Bill W.
1976AAWS, Alcoholics
Anonymous, p. 12
Thought
to Consider . . .
Willpower . . . our willingness to use a Higher
Power.
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
EGO
Edging God Out
*~*^Just
For
Today!^*~*
Solo
From "Source of
Strength":
"I would tell a friend of
mine, who was having the same problems, that I prayed to God not to take a drink
today and not to get married today. It was a sort of pact. I was very serious
about this. I couldn't seem to handle romance and God too well at the same time.
And God did start to give me the strength that I had always thought would come
from the man in my life."
New York, New York, USA
1973 AAWS Inc.
Came to
Believe, 30th printing 2004 pgs. 102-03
*^Daily
Reflections^*
REDOUBLING OUR EFFORTS
To a degree, he has
already done this when taking moral inventory, but now the time has come when he
ought to redouble his efforts to see how many people he has hurt, and in what
ways.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS p.
77
As I continue to grow in sobriety, I
become more aware of myself as a person of worth. In the process, I am
better able to see others as persons, and with this comes the realization that
these were people whom I had hurt in my drinking days. I didn't just lie,
I lied about Tom. I didn't just cheat, I cheated Joe. What were
seemingly impersonal acts, were really personal affronts, because it was people
- people of worth - whom I had harmed. I need to do something about the
people I have hurt so that I may enjoy a peaceful
sobriety.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES,
INC.
*~*^As
Bill
Sees
It^*~*
Who Is to Blame
At Step Four we resolutely looked for our own
mistakes. Where had we been selfish, dishonest, self-seeking, and frightened?
Though a given situation had not been entirely our fault, we often tried to cast
the whole blame on the other person involved. We finally saw that the inventory
should be ours, not the other man's. So we admitted our wrongs honestly and
became willing to set these matters straight.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS p. 67
*~*^Big
Book
Quote^*~*
We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the
show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day "Thy will be done." We
are then in much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry,
self-pity, or foolish decisions. We become much more efficient. We do
not tire so easily, for we are not burning up energy foolishly as we did
when we were trying to arrange life to suit ourselves."
Alcoholics Anonymous 4th Edition
Into Action pg.
87
*^Twenty
Four
Hours A
Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
"The tremendous fact for every one of
us is that we have discovered a common solution. We who have found this
solution to our alcoholic problem, we who are properly armed with the
facts about ourselves, can generally win the entire confidence of another
alcoholic. We who are making the approach to new prospects have had the same
difficulty they have had. We obviously know what we are talking about.
Our whole deportment shouts at new prospects that we are people with a
real answer." Am I a person with the real answer to the alcoholic problems
of others?
Meditation for the Day
For
straying from the right way there is no cure except to keep so close to the
thought of God that nothing, no other interest, can seriously come between
you and God. Sure of that, you can stay on God's side. Knowing the way,
nothing can prevent your staying in the way and nothing can cause you to
seriously stray from it. God has promised peace if you stay close to Him,
but not leisure. You still have to carry on in the world. He has promised
heart-rest and comfort, but not pleasure in the ordinary sense. Peace and
comfort bring real inward happiness.
Prayer for the Day
I
pray that I may keep my feet on the way. I pray that I may stay on God's
side.
Hazelden Foundation PO Box 176 Center City, MN 55012
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