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Prayer
"As the doubter tries the process of prayer, he should begin to
add up the results. If he persists, he will surely find more serenity, more
tolerance, less fear, and less anger. He will acquire a quiet courage, the kind
that isn't tension-ridden. He can look at 'failure' and 'success' for what these
really are. Problems and calamity will begin to mean his instruction, instead of
his destruction. Wonderful and unaccountable things will start to
happen."
Bill W., Box 1980: The AA Grapevine, June
1958
As Bill Sees It, p. 321
Thought
to Consider . . .
Trying to pray is
praying.
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
BS = Before
Sobriety
*~*^Just
For
Today!^*~*
Self-Care
From "To
Wives":
"Be determined that your
husband's [or other loved one's] drinking is not going to spoil your relations
with your children or your friends. They need your companionship and your help.
It is possible to have a full and useful life, though your husband continues to
drink. We know women who are unafraid, even happy under these conditions. Do not
set your heart on reforming your husband. You may be unable to do so, no matter
how hard you try."
2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth
Edition
Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 111
*^Daily
Reflections^*
MYSTERIOUS WAYS
...out of every season of
grief or suffering, when the hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new
lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered, and
that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does "move in a
mysterious way His wonders to perform."
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p.
105
After losing my career, family and health, I
remained unconvinced that my way of life needed a second look. My drinking
and other drug use were killing me, but I had never met a recovering person or
an A.A. member. I thought I was destined to die alone and that I
deserved it. At the peak of my despair, my infant son became critically
ill with a rare disease. Doctors' efforts to help him proved
useless. I redoubled my efforts to block my feelings, but now the alcohol
had stopped working. I was left staring into God's eyes, begging for
help. My introduction to A.A. came within days, through an odd series of
coincidences, and I have remained sober ever since. My son lived and his
disease is in remission. The entire episode convinced me of my
powerlessness and the un-manageability of my life. Today my son and I
thank God for His intervention.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES,
INC.
*~*^As
Bill
Sees
It^*~*
Only God Is Unchanging
Change is the characteristic of all
growth. From drinking to sobriety, from dishonesty to honesty, from conflict to
serenity, from hate to love, from childish dependence to adult responsibility -
all this and infinitely more represent change for the better. Such changes
are accomplished by a belief in and a practice of sound principles. Here we must
needs discard bad or ineffective principles in favor of good ones that work.
Even good principles can sometimes be displaced by the discovery of still better
ones. Only God is unchanging; only He has all the truth there
is.
LETTER, 1966
Copyright 1967 Alcoholics Anonymous
World Services, Inc.
*~*^Big
Book
Quote^*~*
"On
awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our
plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking,
especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or
self-seeking motives. Under these conditions we can employ our mental
faculties with assurance, for after all God gave us brains to use. Our
thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is
cleared of wrong motives."
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th
Edition
Into Action, pg. 86
*^Twenty
Four
Hours A
Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
A.A. also helps us to hang onto
sobriety. By having regular meetings so that we can associate with other
alcoholics who have come through that same door in the wall, by encouraging us
to tell the story of our own sad experiences with alcohol, and by showing us how
to help other alcoholics, A.A. keeps us sober. Our attitude toward life changes
from one of pride and selfishness to one of humility and gratitude. Am I going
to step back through that door in the wall to my old helpless, hopeless, drunken
life?
Meditation for the Day
Withdraw into
the calm of communion with God. Rest in that calm and peace. When the soul finds
its home of rest in God, then it is that real life begins. Only when you are
calm and serene can you do good work. Emotional upsets make you useless. The
eternal life is calmness and when you enter into that, then you live as an
eternal being. Calmness is based on complete trust in God. Nothing in this world
can separate you from the love of God.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I
may wear the world like a loose garment. I pray that I may keep serene at the
center of my being.
Hazelden Foundation PO Box 176 Center City, MN
55012
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