*~*^Just
For
Today!^*~*
Diverse From "What We
Need Each Other":
For years, whenever I
reflected on Tradition Three ('The only requirement for A.A. membership is a
desire to stop drinking'), I thought it valuable only to newcomers. It was their
guarantee that no one could bar them from A.A. Today I feel enduring gratitude
for the spiritual development the Tradition has brought me. Charlotte, the
atheist, showed me higher standards of ethics and honor; Clay, of another race,
taught me patience; Winslow, who is gay, led me by example into true compassion;
Young Megan says that seeing me at meetings, sober thirty years, keeps her
coming back. Tradition Three insured that we would get what we need - each
other."
1990 AAWS, Inc.
Daily
Reflections, pg.
33
*^Daily
Reflections^*
ROUND-THE-CLOCK FAITH
Faith has to work twenty-four hours a
day in and through us, or we perish.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, P.
16
The essence of my spirituality, and my sobriety, rests on a
round-the-clock faith in a Higher Power. I need to remember and rely on
the God of my understanding as I pursue all of my daily activities. How
comforting for me is the concept that God works in and through people. As
I pause in my day, do I recall specific concrete examples of God's
presence? Am I amazed and uplifted by the number of times this power is
evident? I am overwhelmed with gratitude for my God's presence in my life
of recovery. Without this omnipotent force in my every activity, I would
again fall into the depths of my disease - and death.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES,
INC.
*~*^As
Bill
Sees
It^*~*
The Wine of Success
Disagreeable or unexpected problems are not the only
ones that call for self-control. We must be quite as careful when we begin to
achieve some measure of importance and material success. For no people have ever
loved personal triumphs more than we have loved them; we drank of success as of
a wine which could never fail to make us-feel elated. Blinded by prideful
self-confidence, we were apt to play the big shot. Now that we're in A.A. and
sober, winning back the esteem of our friends and business associates, we find
that we still need to exercise special vigilance. As an insurance against the
dangers of big-shot-ism, we can often check ourselves by remembering that we are
today sober only by the grace of God and that any success we may be having is
far more His success than ours.
TWELVE AND TWELVE, pp. 91-92
*~*^Big
Book
Quote^*~* 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. What was our
choice to be?
Pg. 53 - We Agnostics
*^Twenty
Four
Hours A
Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
On the
foundation of sobriety, we can build a life of honesty, unselfishness, faith in
God, and love of our fellow human beings. We'll never fully reach these goals,
but the adventure of building that kind of a life is so much better than the
merry-go-round of our old drinking life that there's no comparison. We come into
A.A. to get sober, but if we stay long enough we learn a new way of living. We
become honest with ourselves and with other people. We learn to think more about
others and less about ourselves. And we learn to rely on the constant help of a
Higher Power. Am I living the way of honesty, unselfishness, and faith?
Meditation for the Day
I believe that God had already seen my
heart's needs before I cried to Him, before I was conscious of those needs
myself. I believe that God was already preparing the answer. God does not have
to be petitioned with sighs and tears and much speaking before he reluctantly
looses the desired help. He has already anticipated my every want and need. I
will try to see this, as His plans unfold in my life.
Prayer
for the Day
I pray that I may understand my real wants
and needs. I pray that my understanding of those needs and wants may help to
bring the answer to them.
Hazelden Foundation PO Box 176 Center City, MN 55012
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