Thoughts For The Day~*~Dry ^*^*^ September 3
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~A.A.
Thoughts
For
The Day~
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"Sometimes, we become depressed. I ought to know; I have been a champion dry-bender case myself. While the surface causes were a part of the picture - trigger-events that precipitated depression - the underlying causes, I am satisfied, ran much deeper. Intellectually, I could accept my situation. Emotionally, I could not. To those problems, there are certainly no pat answers. But part of the answer lies in the constant effort to practice all of A.A.'s Twelve Steps."
Bill W., Letter 1954
1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 30
Thought to Consider . . .
The Twelve Steps are but suggestions, as is pulling the rip cord on a parachute.
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
D R Y
Doing Recovery Yourself
*~*^Just For Today!^*~*
At Peace
From: "On the
Move"
Like everyone
else I have good days and bad days. Unlike my attitude while I was still
drinking, however, I rarely dread what is going to happen to me today. I have
even had the chance to see my father come into A.A. We have been to numerous
A.A. conventions together and have shared more with each other in the past few
years than we ever had before. I think we are both at peace with our pasts and
comfortable with the present.
2001 AAWS Inc.
Alcoholics Anonymous, page
493
BUILDING A NEW LIFE
We feel a man is unthinking when he says sobriety is enough.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 82
When I reflect on Step Nine, I see that physical sobriety must be enough for me. I need to remember the hopelessness I felt before I found sobriety, and how I was willing to go to any lengths for it. Physical sobriety is not enough for those around me, however, since I must see that God's gift is used to build a new life for my family and loved ones. Just as importantly, I must be available to help others who want the A.A. way of life. I ask God to help me share the gift of sobriety so that its benefits may be shown to those I know and love.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
*~*^As
Bill
Sees
It^*~*
Instinct to Live
"When men and women pour so much alcohol into themselves that they destroy their lives, they commit a most unnatural act. Defying their instinctive desire for self-preservation, they seem bent upon self-destruction. They work against their own deepest instinct. As they are progressively humbled by the terrific beating administered by alcohol, the grace of God can enter them and expel their obsession. Here their powerful instinct to live can cooperate fully with their Creator's desire to give them new life."
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"The central characteristic of the spiritual experience is that it gives the recipient a new and better motivation out of all proportion to any process of discipline, belief, or faith. These experiences cannot make us whole at once; they are a rebirth to a fresh and certain opportunity."
1. TWELVE AND TWELVE, P. 64
2. LETTER, 1965
*~*^Big Book Quote^*~*
"When men and women pour so much alcohol into themselves that they destroy their lives, they commit a most unnatural act. Defying their instinctive desire for self-preservation, they seem bent upon self-destruction. They work against their own deepest instinct. As they are progressively humbled by the terrific beating administered by alcohol, the grace of God can enter them and expel their obsession. Here their powerful instinct to live can cooperate fully with their Creator's desire to give them new life."
<<< >>>
"The central characteristic of the spiritual experience is that it gives the recipient a new and better motivation out of all proportion to any process of discipline, belief, or faith. These experiences cannot make us whole at once; they are a rebirth to a fresh and certain opportunity."
1. TWELVE AND TWELVE, P. 64
2. LETTER, 1965
*~*^Big Book Quote^*~*
"Much
to our relief, we discovered we did not need to consider another's conception
of God. Our own conception, however inadequate, was sufficient to make the
approach and to effect a contact with Him. As soon as we admitted the
possible existence of a Creative Intelligence, a Spirit of the Universe
underlying the totality of things, we began to be possessed of a new sense of
power and direction, provided we took other simple
steps."
Alcoholics Anonymous 4th Edition
We Agnostics, pg. 46
*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
"Offer new prospects friendship and fellowship. Tell them that if they want to get well you will do anything to help. Burn the idea into the consciousness of new prospects that they can get well, regardless of anyone else. Job or no job, spouse or no spouse, they cannot stop drinking as long as they place dependence on other people ahead of dependence on God. Let no alcoholic say they cannot recover unless they have their family back. This just isn't so. Their recovery is not dependent upon other people. It is dependent on their own relationship to God." Can I recognize all excuses made by a prospect?
Meditation for the Day
The spiritual life depends upon the Unseen. To live the spiritual life, you must believe in the Unseen. Try not to lose the consciousness of God's spirit in you and in others. As a child in its mother's arms, stay sheltered in the understanding and love of God. God will relieve you of the weight of worry and care, misery and depression, want and woe, faintness and heartache, if you will let Him. Lift up your eyes from earth's troubles and view the glory of the unseen God. Each day try to see more good in people, more of the Unseen in the seen.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may rest and abide in the presence of the unseen God. I pray that I may leave my burdens in His care.
Hazelden Foundation PO Box 176 Center City, MN 55012
Alcoholics Anonymous 4th Edition
We Agnostics, pg. 46
*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
"Offer new prospects friendship and fellowship. Tell them that if they want to get well you will do anything to help. Burn the idea into the consciousness of new prospects that they can get well, regardless of anyone else. Job or no job, spouse or no spouse, they cannot stop drinking as long as they place dependence on other people ahead of dependence on God. Let no alcoholic say they cannot recover unless they have their family back. This just isn't so. Their recovery is not dependent upon other people. It is dependent on their own relationship to God." Can I recognize all excuses made by a prospect?
Meditation for the Day
The spiritual life depends upon the Unseen. To live the spiritual life, you must believe in the Unseen. Try not to lose the consciousness of God's spirit in you and in others. As a child in its mother's arms, stay sheltered in the understanding and love of God. God will relieve you of the weight of worry and care, misery and depression, want and woe, faintness and heartache, if you will let Him. Lift up your eyes from earth's troubles and view the glory of the unseen God. Each day try to see more good in people, more of the Unseen in the seen.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may rest and abide in the presence of the unseen God. I pray that I may leave my burdens in His care.
Hazelden Foundation PO Box 176 Center City, MN 55012
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