~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~
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Sunlight
"When
the thought was expressed to me that
there might be a God personal to me,
I didn't like the idea.
So my friend Ebby made what then seemed
a novel suggestion.
He said, 'Why don't you
choose
your own conception of
God?' That
statement hit me hard.
It melted the icy
intellectual mountain in
whose shadow I had lived and shivered many years.
I stood in the sunlight
at last."
Bill W., Alcoholics
Anonymous, p. 12
As Bill Sees It, p. 313
Thought to Consider . . .
Joy
isn't the absence of pain-- it's the presence of God.
*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
LET GO
Leave Everything To God, Okay?
*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*
Release
From
"On a Winter Day":
"I knew I had to
have a new beginning, and this beginning had to be here. I could not start
anywhere else. I had to let go of the past and forget the future. As long as I
held on to the past with one hand and grabbed at the future with the other
hand, I had nothing to hold on to today with. So I had to begin here, now. "The next time I
went back to my A.A. group, the "happy hypocrites" looked different
to me. I began to see love in their eyes, a greater
warmth than I had ever seen before. I mentioned it to my sponsor, and he said,
'The reason you see love in these people's eyes is because you are beginning to
love them. The love that we see in their eyes is the reflection of our own
love. We have got to love to be loved.'--
(c) 1973
AAWS, Inc.; Came to Believe, 30th printing 2004, pg. 46
*~*~*~*~*^Daily Reflections^*~*~*~*~*
CRYING FOR THE MOON
"This
very real feeling of inferiority is magnified by his childish sensitivity and
it is this state of affairs which generates in him that insatiable, abnormal
craving for self-approval and success in the eyes of the world. Still a
child, he cries for the moon. And the moon, it seems, won't have
him!"
LANGUAGE OF THE HEART, p. 102
While
drinking I seemed to vacillate between feeling totally invisible and believing
I was the center of the universe. Searching for that elusive balance
between the two has become a major part of my recovery. The moon I
constantly cried for is, in sobriety, rarely full; it shows me instead its many
other phases, and there are lessons in them all. True learning has often
followed an eclipse, a time of darkness, but with each cycle of my recovery,
the light grows stronger and my vision is clearer.
(c)Copyright
1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.(c)
*~*~*~*~*^As Bill Sees It^*~*~*~*~*
"...In All Our Affairs
"The
chief purpose of A.A. is sobriety. We all realize that without sobriety we have
nothing.
"However, it is
possible to expand this simple aim into a great deal of nonsense, so far as the
individual member is concerned. Sometimes we hear him say, in effect, "Sobriety
is my sole responsibility. After all, I'm a pretty fine chap, except for my
drinking. Give me sobriety, and I've got it made!' "As long as our friend clings to
this comfortable alibi, he will make so little progress with his real life
problems and responsibilities that he stands in a fair way to get drunk again.
This is why A.A.'s Twelfth Step urges that we 'practice these principles in all
our affairs.' We are not living just to be sober; we are living to learn, to
serve, and to love."
LETTER, 1966
*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest
on our laurels.
We are headed for
trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe.
We are not cured of alcoholism.
What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.
- Pg. 85
- Into Action
*~*~*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*~*~*
A.A. Thought for the Day
When I came into A.A., I found men and women who had been
through the same things I had been through. But now they were thinking more
about how they could help others than they were about themselves. They were a
lot more unselfish than I ever was. By coming to meetings and associating with
them, I began to think a little less about myself and a little more about other
people. I also learned that I didn't have to depend on myself alone to get out
of the mess I was in. I could get a greater strength than my own. Am I now
depending less on myself and more on God?
Meditation for the Day
You cannot help others unless you understand the person you are
trying to help. To understand the problems and temptations of others, you must
have been through them yourself. You must do all you can to understand others.
You must study their backgrounds, their likes and dislikes, their reactions and
their prejudices. When you see their weaknesses, do not confront the person
with them. Share your own weaknesses, sins, and temptations and let other
people find their own convictions.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may serve as a channel for God's power to come
into the lives of others.
I pray that I may try to understand them