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"I find the willingness to give thanks by contemplating the lessons learned from past suffering - lessons which have led to blessings I now enjoy. I can remember how the agonies of alcoholism, the pain of rebellion and thwarted pride, have often led me to God's grace, and so to a new freedom."
The AA Grapevine, March 1962
As Bill Sees It, p. 266
Remember that we deal with alcohol - cunning, baffling, powerful!
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T R U S T
Try Relying Upon the STeps
"At the Foundation,
meanwhile, we had taken a significant action that was incorporated in these
Traditions. In 1945 we wrote [our early supporters] Mr. John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., and the 1940 dinner guests that we would no longer need their financial
help. The book royalties could now look after Dr. Bob and me; group
contributions could pay the general office expenses. If these were insufficient,
the reserve accumulated out of literature sales could meet the deficit. This
meant that we had finally declared for full self-support. Since that time A.A.'s
Board of Trustees has steadfastly refused outside
contributions."
2001 AAWS, Inc.
Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pgs.
203-204
THE IDEA OF FAITH
Do not let any prejudice you may have against spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself what they mean to you.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 47
The idea of faith is a very large chunk to swallow when fear, doubt and anger abound in and around me. Sometimes just the idea of doing something different, something I am not accustomed to doing, can eventually become an act of faith if I do it regularly, and do it without debating whether it's the right thing to do. When a bad day comes along and everything is going wrong, a meeting or a talk with another drunk often distracts me just enough to persuade me that everything is not quite as impossible, as overwhelming as I had thought. In the same way, going to a meeting or talking to a fellow alcoholic are acts of faith; I believe I'm arresting my disease. These are ways I slowly move toward faith in a Higher Power.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
*~*^As Bill Sees It^*~*
Growth by the Tenth Step
"In the years ahead A.A. will, of course,
make mistakes. Experience has taught us that we need have no fear of doing this,
providing that we always remain willing to admit our faults and to correct them
promptly. Our growth as individuals has depended upon this healthy process of
trial and error. So will our growth as a fellowship. Let us always remember
that any society of men and women that cannot freely correct its own faults must
surely fall into decay if not into collapse. Such is the universal penalty for
the failure to go on growing. Just as each A.A. must continue to take his moral
inventory and act upon it, so must our whole Society if we are to survive and if
we are to serve usefully and well."
A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 231
Copyright 1967
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc
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"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
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A.A. Thought for the Day
In A.A., we must surrender, give up, admit that
we're helpless. We surrender our lives to God and ask Him for help. When He
knows that we're ready, He gives us by His grace the free gift of sobriety. And
we can't take any credit for having stopped drinking, because we didn't do it by
our own willpower. There's no place for pride or boasting. We can only be
grateful to God for doing for us what we could never do for ourselves. Do I
believe that God has made me a free gift of the strength to stay sober?
Meditation for the Day
I must work for God, with God, and through God's
help. By helping to bring about a true fellowship of human beings, I am working
for God. I am also working with God because this is the way God works, and He is
with me when I am doing such work. I cannot do good work, however, without God's
help. In the final analysis, it is through the grace of God that any real change
in human personality takes place. I have to rely on God's power, and anything I
accomplish is through His help.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may work for God and with God. I
pray that I may be used to change human personalities through God's
help.
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