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Promises
"We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves."
c. 1976 AAWS
Alcoholics Anonymous, pp 83-84
Thought to Consider . . .
The Promises are a result; not a right.
*~*AACRONYMS*~*
F I T
Faith, Intuition, and Trust
*~*^Just For Today!^*~*
Basis
"A religion, properly, is of
divine origin; governs the person in his relationship with his Higher Power; and
promises its rewards and punishments after death. A philosophy is of human
origin; governs the person in his relationship with his fellowman; and promises
its rewards and punishments during life. A.A., I submit, is a philosophy. If we
alcoholics follow the philosophy of A.A., we can regain an understanding of our
several religions."
Maryland, USA
1973 AAWS, Inc.
Came to
Believe, 30th printing 2004, pg.
5
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Reflections^*~*
THE LAST PROMISE
We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we
could not do for ourselves.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84
The last
Promise in the Big Book came true for me on the very first day of sobriety. God
kept me sober that day, and on every other day I allowed Him to operate in my
life. He gives me the strength, courage and guidance to meet my responsibilities
in life so that I am then able to reach out and help others stay sober and grow.
He manifests within me, making me a channel of His word, thought and deed. He
works with my inner self, while I produce in the outer world, for He will not do
for me what I can do for myself. I must be willing to do His work, so that He
can function through me successfully.
Copyright 1990
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
WORLD SERVICES, INC.
The Step That Keeps Us Growing
"Sometimes, when friends tell us how well we are doing, we know better inside. We know we aren't doing well enough. We still can't handle life, as life is. There must be a serious flaw somewhere in our spiritual practice and development. What, then, is it? The chances are better than even that we shall locate our trouble in our misunderstanding or neglect of A.A.'s Step Eleven - prayer, meditation, and the guidance of God. The other Steps can keep most of us sober and somehow functioning. But Step Eleven can keep us growing, if we try hard and work at it continually."
GRAPEVINE, JUNE 1958
*~*^Big Book Quote^*~*
"The greatest enemies of us alcoholics
are resentment, jealousy, envy, frustration, and
fear."
Alcoholics Anonymous 4th Edition
To Employers, pg.
145
*^Twenty
Four
Hours
A Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
Let us continue
with Steps Four, Five, Six, Seven, and Ten. In taking a personal inventory of
ourselves, we have to face facts as they really are. We have to stop running
away. We must face reality. We must see ourselves as we really are. We must
admit our faults openly and try to correct them. We must try to see where we
have been dishonest, impure, selfish, and unloving. We do not do this once and
forget it. We do it every day of our lives, as long as we live. We are never
done with checking up on ourselves. Am I taking a daily inventory of myself?
Meditation for the Day
In
improving our personal lives, we have Unseen help. We were not made so that we
could see God. That would be too easy for us and there would be no merit in
obeying Him. It takes an act of faith, a venture of belief, to realize the
Unseen Power. Yet we have much evidence of God's existence in the strength that
many people have received from the act of faith, the venture of belief. We are
in a box of space and time and we can see neither our souls nor God. God and the
human spirit are both outside the limitations of space and time. Yet our Unseen
help is effective here and now. That has been proved in thousands of changed
lives.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may make the great venture of belief. I pray that my
vision may not be blocked by intellectual pride.
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