Thoughts For The Day~*~Anger^*^*^*^*^ June 10

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Happy Birthday A.A.!!!
Imparted June 10, 1935!

 ~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~
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Anger
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"Then the miracle happened - to me! It isn't always so sudden with everyone, but I ran into a personal crisis which filled me with a raging and righteous anger.  And as I fumed helplessly and planned to get good and drunk and show them, my eye caught a sentence to the book lying open on my bed.  'We cannot live with anger.'  The walls crumpled - and the light streamed in.  I wasn't trapped. I wasn't helpless.  I was free, and I didn't have to drink to 'show them.'  This wasn't 'religion' - this was freedom! Freedom from anger and fear, freedom to know happiness and love."
1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 228
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Thought to Consider ...

Anger is the hot wind that extinguishes the light of reason.

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NUTS Not Using The Steps?

*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*
Beginning
from: "Two alcoholics meet"

"'I have placed both operation and myself in God's hands.  I'm going to do what it takes to get sober and stay that way.'  "Just before they stopped [at the hospital, where Dr. Bob was to perform surgery], Bill, who also had his practical side, gave him a bottle of beer...The bottle of beer Bill gave him that morning was the last drink he [Dr. Bob] ever had. "Although arguments have been and will be made for other significant occasions in A.A. history, it is generally agreed that Alcoholics Anonymous began there, in Akron, on that date: June 10, 1935."
1980, Dr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers, pages 74-75

*~*~*~*^Daily Reflections^*~*~*~*
IMPATIENT? TRY LEVITATING

We reacted more strongly to frustrations than normal people.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 111

Impatience with other people is one of my principal failings.  Following a slow car in a no-passing lane, or waiting in a restaurant for the check, drives me to distraction. Before I give God a chance to slow me down, I explode, and that's what I call being quicker than God. That repeated experience gave me an idea. I thought if I could look down on these events from God's point of view, I might better control my feelings and behavior. I tried it and when I encountered the next slow driver, I levitated and looked down on the other car and upon myself. I saw an elderly couple driving along, happily chatting about their grandchildren. They were followed by me--bug eyed and red of face--who had no time schedule to meet anyway. I looked so silly that I dropped back into reality and slowed down.  Seeing things from God's angle of vision can be very relaxing.
Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.

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Whose Inventory?

We do not relate intimate experiences of another member unless we are sure he would approve. We find it better, when possible, to stick to our own stories. A man may criticize or laugh at himself and it will affect others favorably, but criticism or ridicule aimed at someone else produces the contrary effect.
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A continuous look at our assets and liabilities, and a real desire to learn and grow by this means are necessities for us. We alcoholics have learned this the hard way. More experienced people, of course, in all times and places have practiced unsparing self-survey and criticism.
1. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, P. 125
2. TWELVE AND TWELVE, P. 88

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"We will seldom be interested in liquor. If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame. We react sanely and normally, and we will find that this has happened automatically. We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes!"
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 84~

*~*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*~*
A.A. Thought for the Day

If we have had some moral, religious, or spiritual training, we're better prospects for A.A. When we reach the bottom, at this crucial moment when we're thoroughly licked, we turn instinctively to whatever decency is left in us. We call upon whatever reserves of morality and faith are left down deep in our heart. Have I had this spiritual experience?

Meditation for the Day

The world wonders when it sees a person who can unexpectedly draw large and unsuspected sums from the bank for some emergency. But what the world has not seen are the countless small sums paid into that bank, earned by faithful work over a long time. And so is the bank of the spirit. The world sees the person of faith make a demand on God's stores of power and the demand is met. The world does not see what that person has been putting in, in thanks and praise, in prayer and communion, in small good deeds done faithfully, steadily over the years.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may keep making deposits in God's bank. I pray that in my hour of need, I may call upon these.
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