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Thoughts
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Trouble
"Money-wise, Dr. Bob and I
were still in a rather bad way. We were therefore allotted $30 a week [in 1940],
and enough was on hand to keep this up for a year. Thereafter the [Rockefeller]
dinner guests were solicited annually and the proceeds were always divided in
the same way. Four years later we were able to write Mr. Rockefeller and his
friends of the Union Club dinner that we needed no more funds. By then royalties
from the book were giving Dr. Bob and me the help we needed, and the A.A. groups
had begun to pick up the load of supporting the Headquarters office. At that
point the A.A. Tradition of 'no outside contributions' went into full force and
effect. Mr. Rockefeller and his friends had given us something more valuable
than money. They had put A.A. on the map."
2001 AAWS, Inc.
Alcoholics
Anonymous Comes of Age, pgs.
186-88
"We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: 'Once
an alcoholic, always an alcoholic.' Commencing to drink after a period of
sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever."
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition
More About
Alcoholism, pg. 33
*^Twenty
Four
Hours A
Day^*
A.A. Thought for the Day
How good a sponsor am I? When I bring new members to a meeting,
do I feel that my responsibility has ended? Or do I make it my job to
stay with them until they have either become good members of A.A. or
have found another sponsor? If they don't show up for a meeting, do I say to
myself. "Well, they've had it put up to them, so if they don't want it,
there's nothing more I can do"? Or do I look them up and find out whether
there is a reason for their absences or that they don't want A.A.? Do I go
out of my way to find out if there is anything more I can do to help? Am I a
good sponsor?
Meditation for the Day
"First be reconciled to your brother and then come
and offer your gift to God." First I must get right with other people and
then I can get right with God. If I hold a resentment against someone,
which I find it very difficult to overcome, I should try to put
something else constructive into my mind. I should pray for the one
against whom I hold the resentment. I should put that person in God's hands
and let God show him or her the way to live. "If a man say: 'I love God' and
hateth his brother, he is a liar, for he that loveth not his brother whom he
hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?"
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may see something good in
every person, even one I dislike, and that I may let God develop the good in
that person.
Hazelden Foundation PO Box 176 Center
City, MN 55012