January 1
Daily
Reflections
"I AM A
MIRACLE"
The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty that our
Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a way which is indeed
miraculous. He has commenced to accomplish those things for us
which we could never do by ourselves.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 25
This truly is a fact in my life today, and a real miracle. I always
believed in God, but could never put that belief meaningfully into my
life. Today, because of Alcoholics Anonymous, I now trust and rely on
God, as I understand Him; I am sober today because of that! Learning
to trust and rely on God was something I could never have done alone.
I now believe in miracles because I am one!
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Twenty-Four Hours A Day
A.A. Thought For The Day
When I came into A.A., was I a desperate person? Did I have a
soul-sickness? Was I so sick of myself and my way of living that I
couldn't stand looking at myself in a mirror? Was I ready for A.A.?
Was I ready to try anything that would help me to get sober and to get
over my soul-sickness? Should I ever forget the condition I was in?
Meditation For The Day
In the new year, I will live one day at a time. I will make each day one
of preparation for better things ahead. I will not dwell on the past or
the future, only on the present. I will bury every fear of the future,
all
thoughts of unkindness and bitterness, all my dislikes, my resentments,
my sense of failure, my disappointments in others and in myself, my
gloom and my despondency. I will leave all these things buried and go
forward, in this new year, into a new life.
Prayer For The Day
I pray that God will guide me one day at a time in the new year. I pray
that for each day, God will supply the wisdom and the strength that I
need.
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As Bill Sees It
Personality
Change, p. 1
"It has often been said of A.A. that we are interested only in
alcoholism.
That is not true. We have to get over drinking in order to stay alive.
But anyone who knows the alcoholic personality by firsthand contact
knows that no true alky ever stops drinking permanently without
undergoing a profound personality change."
<< << << >> >> >>
We thought "conditions" drove us to drink, and when we tried to
correct these conditions and found that we couldn't do so to our entire
satisfaction, our drinking went out of hand and we became alcoholics. It
never occurred to us that we needed to change ourselves to meet
conditions, whatever they were.
1. Letter, 1940
2. 12 & 12, p. 47
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Walk In Dry Places
A
year to grow.
Growth.
This new year can be a time of growth in sobriety. While we have no
crystal ball that tells us what luck and fortune the year will bring,
we do have a program that gives us the power to make the best of this
year, to grow in sobriety. We can make progress in overcoming
resentment and selfishness, we can help others in their search for
happy sobriety, and we can make better use of our talents and
opportunities.
We can live sober, and we also can find happiness and true self-esteem
in sobriety. In our drinking, a desperate search for happiness and
self-esteem compelled us to drink, but we could never find our happy
destiny in the bottle. No matter what came to us, things had a way of
turning sour as we continued to drink and to take other harmful
substances.
In our new life, we have good reason to feel confident and optimistic.
We have friends who understand us; we have sponsors who will share with
us their own experience and hope. We have a Higher Power who is, as the
poet Tennyson said, "closer to us than breathing, and nearer than hands
and feet." We face nothing alone, and in the new year all experiences
can help us grow.
I face this day with confidence, courage, and optimism. I will know
that my Higher Power is present in every person and situation.
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Keep It Simple
We admitted we were
powerless over alcohol...--First part of Step
One.
In Step One, we accept our powerlessness over alcohol and other drugs.
But we are powerless over many parts of life. We are powerless over
other
people. We are powerless over what our HP has planned for us. Before
recovery, we only believed in control. We tried to control everything.
We
fought against a basic truth, the truth that we are powerless over much
of life. When we accept this truth, we begin to see what power we do
have. We have the power to make choices. When we're lonely, we have the
power to reach out to others. We have power over how we live our own
lives.
PRAYER: HP, help me to know that it's You who is running my life.
Help me
to know that power comes from accepting I am powerless.
ACTION: I am powerless over much of life. Today, I'll look to see
how
this is true. I'll look to see what I really have control over and what
I
don't.
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Each Day a New Beginning
We don't always understand the ways of Almighty God--the crosses sent
us, the sacrifices demanded . . . But we accept with faith and
resignation the holy will with no looking back, and we are at
peace. --Anonymous
Acceptance of our past, acceptance of the conditions presently in our
lives that we cannot change, brings relief. It brings the peacefulness
we so often, so frantically, seek.
We can put the past behind us. Each day is a new beginning. And each
day of abstinence offers us the chance to look ahead with hope. A power
greater than ourselves helped us to find this program. That power is
ever with us. When we fear facing new situations, or when familiar
situations turn sour, we can look to that power for help in saying what
needs to be said and for doing what needs to be done. Our higher power
is as close as our breath. Conscious awareness of its presence
strengthens us, moment by moment.
The past is gone. Today is full of possibilities. With each breath I
will be aware of the strength at hand.
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Alcoholics Anonymous - Fourth
Edition
Chapter 6 - INTO ACTION
Returning home we find a place where we can be quiet for an hour,
carefully reviewing what we have done. We thank God from the bottom of
our heart that we know Him better. Taking this book down from our shelf
we turn to the page which contains the twelve steps. Carefully reading
the first five proposals we ask if we have omitted anything, for we are
building an arch through which we shall walk a free man at last. Is our
work solid so far? Are the stones properly in place? Have we skimped on
the cement put into the foundation? Have we tried to make mortar
without sand?
p. 75
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Alcoholics Anonymous - Fourth
Edition Stories
Women Suffer Too
Despite great opportunities, alcohol nearly ended her life. Early
member, she spread the word among women in our pioneering period.
That was the beginning of a new life, a fuller life, a happier life
than I had ever known or believed possible. I had found friends,
understanding friends who often knew what I was thinking and feeling
better than I knew myself, and didn't allow me to retreat into my
prison of loneliness and fear over a fancied slight or hurt. Talking
things over with them, great floods of enlightenment showed me myself
as I really was and I was like them. We all had hundreds of character
traits, of fears and phobias, likes and dislikes, in common. Suddenly I
could accept myself, faults and all, as I was—for weren't we all like
that? And, accepting, I felt a new inner comfort, and the willingness
and strength to do something about the traits I couldn't live with.
pp. 206-207
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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
Step Five -
"Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact
nature of our wrongs."
At this stage, the difficulties of trying to deal rightly with God by
ourselves are twofold. Though we may at first be startled to realize
that God knows all about us, we are apt to get used to that quite
quickly. Somehow, being alone with God doesn't seem as embarrassing as
facing up to another person. Until we actually sit down and talk aloud
about what we have so long hidden, our willingness to clean house is
still largely theoretical. When we are honest with another person, it
confirms that we have been honest with ourselves and with God.
pp. 59-60
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A WORD
A CARELESS WORD MAY KINDLE STRIFE....
A CRUEL WORD MAY WRECK A LIFE........
A TIMELY WORD MAY LEVEL STRESS.......
BUT A LOVING WORD MAY HEAL AND BLESS.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
--Helen Keller
In the process of growing to spiritual maturity, we all go through many
adolescent
stages.
--Miki L. Bowen
"Don't water your weeds."
--Harvey Mackay
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."
--Thomas Carruthers
Ah the dawn of a New Year! May we find inner peace, gentle spirit,
God's grace,
forgiveness, dreams and prayers, Recovery.
--Shelley
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Father Leo's Daily Meditation
SPIRITUALITY
"It is not that I think or believe
[in spirituality] but that I
know."
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Some things I seem to know intuitively: and I know that spirituality is
involved in and
affects everything. In a human being it combines the physical, mental
and emotional
but it also reaches beyond the human being and connects the peoples of
the world.
Spirituality is the force for good and wholeness in this universe.
This is not just an opinion or a thought. It is a feeling that runs so
deep in my being
that I know it must be true. When I read, hear music or see movies,
this feeling is often
evoked, and I know God is alive in His world and wanting it to be ONE.
In the silence of Your world I know You.
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The
Lord is good to all; He has compassion on all He has made.
Psalm 145 : 9
"I will sing praises to my God my life long."
Psalm 146:2
"Protect me. O God, for in you I take refuge.... You show me the path
of life."
Psalm 16:1,11
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Daily Inspiration
Begin every day as if it were your very first because you really are
always at the beginning. Lord, thank you for the constant ability to
stop any offensive behaviors that I have and the gift of being forgiven
and being able to forgive myself.
To be wise, you must first find peace, for peace opens the door to a
freer and fuller life. Lord, continue to draw me close to You so that I
can know more and more of Your peace within me.
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NA Just For Today
Vigilance
“We keep what we
have only with vigilance … ”
—Basic Text, p. 57
How do we remain vigilant about our
recovery? First, by realizing that we have a disease we will always
have. No matter how long we’ve been clean, no matter how much better
our lives have become, no matter what the extent of our spiritual
healing, we are still addicts. Our disease waits patiently, ready to
spring the trap if we give it the opportunity.
Vigilance is a daily accomplishment.
We strive to be constantly alert and ready to deal with signs of
trouble. Not that we should live in irrational fear that something
horrible will possess us if we drop our guard for an instant; we just
take normal precautions. Daily prayer, regular meeting attendance, and
choosing not to compromise spiritual principles for the easier way are
acts of vigilance. We take inventory as necessary, share with others
whenever we are asked, and carefully nurture our recovery. Above all,
we stay aware.
We have a daily reprieve from our
addiction as long as we remain vigilant. Each day, we carry the
principles of recovery into all we do, and each night, we thank our
Higher Power for another day clean.
Just for today: I will be vigilant,
doing everything necessary to guard my recovery.
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You are reading from the book Today's
Gift.
The fragrance always stays in the hand
that gives the rose. --Hada Bejar
Nothing is more attractive than
sharing with others. No trait will be admired as much as generosity.
There is no surer way to gain the respect of friends and neighbors than
to show by what we give that we care about others. We can give many
things besides money, shelter, clothing, or food to those in need. We
can give the rich person love and understanding that money can't buy.
We can sympathize with those who are troubled, even though they appear
wealthier than ourselves. We can share experience, strength, and hope
with those who are ill or unhappy. We can even share our suffering with
others who suffer, and hold up a light for them on the road to recovery.
You are reading from the book
Touchstones.
He who is outside the door has already
a good part of his journey behind him.
--Dutch proverb
When we see how far we've strayed from
being the kind of men we wanted to be, we are overwhelmed by how far we
have to go to get back on the track. Perhaps we see clearly for the
first time how unfair we were or how much we hurt those we love. Maybe
we see how pervasive our compulsions are in our lives and how much we
missed.
That is when we are most ready to do
the work of recovery and become most spiritual. It is helpful at those
times to remember that this program is a journey. Although at times the
distance seems overwhelming, all of us are on the path. As long as we
live, we never reach a point where we can stop growing. The important
thing is, we are on the path, and we have a good part of our journey
behind us. Once begun, outside the door, we are progressing like all
our brothers and sisters in the program.
You are reading from the book Each Day
a New Beginning.
We don't always understand the ways of
Almighty God--the crosses sent us, the sacrifices demanded . . . But we
accept with faith and resignation the holy will with no looking back,
and we are at peace. --Anonymous
Acceptance of our past, acceptance of
the conditions presently in our lives that we cannot change, brings
relief. It brings the peacefulness we so often, so frantically, seek.
We can put the past behind us. Each
day is a new beginning. And each day of abstinence offers us the chance
to look ahead with hope. A power greater than ourselves helped us to
find this program. That power is ever with us. When we fear facing new
situations, or when familiar situations turn sour, we can look to that
power for help in saying what needs to be said and for doing what needs
to be done. Our higher power is as close as our breath. Conscious
awareness of its presence strengthens us, moment by moment.
The past is gone. Today is full of
possibilities. With each breath I will be aware of the strength at hand.
You are reading from the book The
Language Of Letting Go.
The New Year
Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and
discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year.
This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're
interested in fully living life in the year to come.
Goals give us direction. They put a
powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious
level.
Goals give our life direction.
What would you like to have happen in
your life this year? What would you like to do, to accomplish? What
good would you like to attract into your life? What particular areas of
growth would you like to have happen to you? What blocks, or character
defects, would you like to have removed?
What would you like to attain? Little
things and big things? Where would you like to go? What would you like
to have happen in friendship and love? What would you like to have
happen in your family life?
Remember, we aren't controlling others
with our goals - we are trying to give direction to our life.
What problems would you like to see
solved? What decisions would you like to make? What would you like to
happen in your career?
What would you like to see happen
inside and around you?
Write it down. Take a piece of paper,
a few hours of your time, and write it all down - as an affirmation of
you, your life, and your ability to choose. Then let it go.
Certainly, things happen that are out
of our control. Sometimes, these events are pleasant surprises;
sometimes, they are of another nature. But they are all part of the
chapter that will be this year in our life and will lead us forward in
the story.
The New Year stands before us, like a
chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story
by setting goals.
Today, I will remember that there is a
powerful force motivated by writing dawn goals. I will do that now, for
the year to come, and regularly as needed. I will do it not to control
but to do my part in living my life.
Today I am on my spiritual path to
recovery. A NEW YEAR! AND A HAPPY, PEACEFUL AND JOYOUS ONE FOR
EVERYONE! --Ruth Fishel
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Journey to the heart
Honor the Beginning
Beginnings can be delicate or
explosive. They can start almost invisibly or arrive with a big bang.
Beginnings hold the promise of new lessons to be learned, new territory
to be explored, and old lessons to be recalled, practiced, and
appreciated. Beginnings hold ambiguity, promise, fear, and hope.
Don't let the lessons, the experiences
of the past, dampen your enthusiasm for beginngs. Just because it's
been hard doesn't mean it will always be that difficult. Don't let the
heartbreaks of the past cause you to become cynical, close you off to
life's magic and promise. Open yourself wide to all that the universe
has to say.
Let yourself begin anew. Pack your
bags. Choose carefully what you bring, because packing is an important
ritual. Take along some humility and the lessons of the past. Toss in
some curiosity and excitement about what you haven't yet learned. Say
your good-byes to those you're leaving behind. Don'y worry who you will
meet or where you will go. The way has been prepared. The people you
are to meet will be expecting you. A new journey has begun. Let it be
magical. Let it unfold.
All parts of the journey are sacred
and holy. Take time now to honor the beginning.
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more language of letting go
Trust that good will come
It was a slow, bring January day at
the Blue Sky Lodge. We had just moved in. The house was a mess.
Construction hadn't begun yet. All we had was a plan, and a dream. It
was too cold and rainy to skydive or even be outdoors. There wasn't any
furniture yet. We were lying around on the floor.
I don't know who got the idea first,
him or me. But we both picked up Magic Markers about the same time.
Then we started drawing on the wall.
"What do you want to happen in your
life?" I asked. He drew pictures of seaplanes, and mountains, and boats
leaving the shore. One picture was a video-camera man, jumping out of a
plane. "I want adventure," he said.
I drew pictures of a woman tromping
around the world. She went to war-torn countries, then sat on a fence
and watched. She visited the mountains and the oceans and many exciting
places. Then I drew a heart around the entire picture, and she sat
there in the middle of all the experiences on a big stack of books.
"I want stories," I said, "ones with a
lot of heart."
Across the entire picture, in big
letters, he wrote the word "Woohoo."
As an afterthought, I drew a woman sky
diver who had just jumped out of the plane. She was frightened and
grimacing. Next to her I wrote the words "Just relax."
On the bottom of the wall I wrote,
"The future is only limited by what we can see now." He grabbed a
marker, crossed out "only," and changed it to "never."
"There," he said, "it's done."
Eventually, the house got cleaned up
and the construction finished. Furniture arrived. And yellow paint
covered the pictures on the wall. We didn't think much about that wall
until months later Sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, and sometimes
in ways we'd least expect, each of the pictures we'd drawn on that wall
began to materialize and manifest.
"It's a magic wall," I said.
Even if you can't imagine what's
coming next, relax. The good pictures are still there. The wall will
soon become covered with the story of your life. Thank God, the future
is never limited by what we can see right now.
The wall isn't magic.
The magic is in us and what we believe.
Before we start speaking the language
of letting go, we need to understand what a powerful behavior letting
go and letting God really is.
God, help me do my part. Then help me
let go, and let you do yours.
Activity: Meditate for a moment on the
year ahead. Make a list of things you'd like to see happen, attributes
you'd like to gain, things you'd like to get and do, changes you'd like
to occur. You don't have to limit the list to this year. What do you
want to happen in your life? Make a list of places you'd like to visit
and things you'd like to see. Leave room for the unexpected, the
unintended. But make room for the possibility of what you'd like,too--
your intentions, wishes, dreams, hopes, and goals. Also, list what
you're ready to let go of,too-- things, people, attitudes, and
behaviors you'd like to release. If anything were possible, anything at
all, what are the possibilities you'd like to experience and see.
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A Day at a Time
Reflection for the Day
In the old days, I saw everything in
terms of forever. Endless hours were spent rehashing old mistakes. I
tried to take comfort in the forlorn hope that tomorrow “would be
different.” As a result, I lived a fantasy life in which happiness was
all but nonexistent. No wonder I rarely smiled and hardly ever laughed
aloud.
Do I still think in terms of “forever?”
Today I Pray
May I set my goals for the New Year
not at the year-long mark, but one day at a time. My traditional New
Year’s resolutions have been so grandly stated and so soon broken. Let
me not weaken my resolve by stretching it to cover “forever” – or even
one long year. May I reapply it firmly each new day. May I learn not to
stamp my past mistakes with that indelible word “forever.” Instead, may
each single day in each New Year be freshened by my new-found hope.
Today I Will Remember
Happy New Day.
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One More Day
The beginning is the most important
part of the work.
– Plato
On occasion we feel a bit sad as we
ready ourselves for bed, knowing that our bedtime routine marks the end
of another day. We may experience a slight sense of loss — time lost,
opportunities lost, a piece of life gone forever. Or we may be filled
with regret over words uttered harshly.
We can put this back into perspective
with the realization that the nicest part about going to bed at night
is knowing the daylight will come in the morning. We can’t erase
today’s mistakes, but we can leave them with the day now past. We can
set our sights on tomorrow. The dy we awaken to will hold a golden
opportunity — to make amends, to make changes, to use our time well, to
start the rest of our lives anew.
My life is made of some endings and
many beginnings. I can choose to end an unproductive pattern by seeing
it as a chance to begin.
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Food For Thought
Good News
There is good news for those of us who overeat compulsively. We do not
have to be trapped by our appetites. We do not have to carry a load of
unnecessary fat. We can have a new life.
Others have become free and are standing by, ready to show us the way.
The more OA meetings we attend, the more we learn. The more phone calls
we make, the more encouragement and support we are given in our fight
to break old, self destructive patterns of thinking and acting. The
more we rely on the Power greater than ourselves, the stronger we
become.
Learning to live a new life requires time and patience. The good news
is that change is possible. Others have done it. So can you.
Lord, make me willing to change.
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One Day At A Time
STEP THREE
“This only God may
be had for the asking.”
James Russell Lowell
When I first came to the program and
looked at the steps on the walls, my ego told me that I had Step Three
already made. Of course, I had skipped right over Steps One and Two! I
thought because I had experienced a religious experience many years
ago, I didn’t need to take Step Three. What I was to discover in the
next few months on my wonderful journey in recovery is that
spirituality and religion were two different things. That my religion
today is part of my spirituality, but my spirituality is so much more.
I finally in Step One “Came”. I kept
coming to meetings and admitted my powerless and unmanageability. Then
I “Came to.” Through Step Two a portion of my sanity was restored and
continues to be restored on a daily basis. Then at the point of taking
Step Three I “Came To Believe”. I realized that I had not turned my
will and my life over to the care of God in the area of my compulsive
overeating. That was a task yet to be done. And I offered myself to my
God to do with as He would. I said the Third Step prayer which can be
found in Alcoholic Anonymous on page 63, “God, I offer myself to Thee –
the build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the
bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my
difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would
help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life. May I do Thy will
always!” I had taken the Third Step. I was moved into a new dimension
in my spiritual life.
One Day at a Time . . .
I will take Step Three this day,
turning my will and life over to the care of my God.
~ Carolyn
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AA ‘Big Book’ – Quote
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
… If you have decided you want what we
have and are willing to go to any length to get it – then you are ready
to take certain steps. At some of these we balked. We thought we could
find and easier, softer way. But we could not. – Pg. 58 – How It Works
Hour To Hour – Book – Quote
Many times we thought we used
chemicals because we were unhappy, but coming to this program, we
discovered that using too many chemicals is what made us unhappy. Now
is the time to break the old unhappy pattern.
This hour, I begin a new clean and
sober pattern of my life.
Co-Creation
I live in a world of possibilities. I
live in a world in which my imagination walks ahead of me. What I can
see in my mind’s eye can manifest. First, I have to see it, feel it,
experience it as real. Then I open a door within me through which my
vision can manifest in God’s time. I am limited only by what I am
willing to accept as possible. Life is a creative process in which I am
the co-creator. God and I work together to make this world a better
place to be. I co-create a beautiful world.
If not now, when? If not you, who? If
not here, where?
– Tian Dayton PhD
Pocket Sponsor – Book – Quote
Do not regret the past. ‘The past is
but the beginning of a beginning/and all that is and has been/is but
the twilight of the dawn.’ ~H. G. Wells from Beside Prayers. Your past
is the beginning of this beginning.
I ‘will not regret the past nor wish
to close the door on it.’ (P 83, AA Big Book)
“Walk Softly and Carry a Big Book” –
Book
Attitudes are contagious. Is yours
worth catching today?
Time for Joy – Book – Quote
A NEW YEAR!
AND A HAPPY, PEACEFUL AND JOYOUS ONE
FOR EVERYONE!
Today I am on my spiritual path to
recovery.
Alkiespeak – Book – Quote
I don’t know if I was born an
alcoholic. I do know that when I had my first drink an alcoholic was
born. – Keith D.
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AA Thought for the Day
January 1
Hope
Each day, somewhere in the world,
recovery begins when one alcoholic
talks with another alcoholic
sharing experience, strength, and hope.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. xxii
Thought to Ponder . . .
Modem-to-modem or face-to-face, AA's
speak the language of the heart.
Hope is the key that unlocks the door
of discouragement.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
H O P E = Heart Open; Please Eenter.
~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~
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.
Self-seeking will slip away.
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.
Are these extravagant promises?
We think not.
They are being fulfilled among us --
sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.
They will always materialize if we
work for them.
c. 1976, 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics
Anonymous, pp. 83-4
Thought to Consider . . .
It works -- it really does.
*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
G R A C E = Gently Releasing All
Conscious Expectations.
*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*
Seed
Step One: We admitted we were
powerless over alcohol--- that our lives had become unmanageable.
"It was then discovered that when one
alcoholic had planted in the mind of another the true nature of his
malady, that person could never be the same again. Following every
spree, he would say to himself, 'Maybe those A.A.'s were right. . . .'
After a few such experiences, often years before the onset of extreme
difficulties, he would return to us convinced. He had hit bottom as
truly as any of us. John Barleycorn himself had become our best
advocate."
1952, AAWS, Inc.; Printed 2005; Twelve
Steps and Twelve Traditions, pgs. 23-24
*~*~*~*~*^ Grapevine Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
"If humility can expel the obsession
to drink alcohol, then surely humility can be our antidote for that
subtle wine called success."
AA Co-Founder, Bill W., October 1947
"Traditions Stressed in Memphis Talk
The Language of the Heart
~*~*~*~*^ Big Book & Twelve N'
Twelve Quotes of the Day ^*~*~*~*~*
"We have three little mottoes which
are apropos.
Here they are:
First Things First
Live and Let Live
Easy Does It."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition,
The Family Afterward, pg. 135~
"Remember that we deal with alcohol,
cunning, baffling, powerful!
Without help it is too much for us.
But there is One who has all
power that One is God. May you find
Him now!"
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition,
How It Works, Page 58~
In Step Eleven we saw that if a Higher
Power had restored us to sanity and had enabled us to live with some
peace of mind in a sorely troubled world, then such a Higher Power was
worth knowing better, by as direct contact as possible.
-Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
p.109
Misc. AA Literature - Quote
It has often been said of A.A. that we
are interested only in alcoholism. This is not true. We have to get
over drinking in order to stay alive. But anyone who knows the
alcoholic personality by firsthand contact knows that no true alky ever
stops drinking permanently without undergoing a profound personality
change.
We thought conditions drove us to
drink, and when we tried to correct these conditions and found that we
couldn't do so to our entire satisfaction, our drinking went out of
hand and we became alcoholics. It never occurred to us that we needed
to change ourselves to meet conditions, whatever they were.
Prayer for the Day: God, I offer
myself to Thee To build with me & to do with me as Thou wilt.
Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will.
Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to
those I would help of Thy Power, Thy love & Thy way of life. May I
do Thy will always.
Ask
and you shall receive,
Seek and ye shall find,
Knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Matthew 7:7
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