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Vigilance
"Now that we're in AA and sober, winning back the esteem of our friends
and business associates, we find that we still need to
exercise special vigilance. As an insurance against
the dangers of big-shot-ism, we can often check
ourselves by remembering
that we are today sober only by the grace of God
and that any success we may be having is far more His
success than ours."
Bill W., Twelve
Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 92
As Bill Sees It, p. 19
Thought to Consider . . .
"Vigilance will always be the
price of survival."
Bill W.,
The Language of the Heart, p. 317
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BUT
Being Unconvinced Totally
*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*
ODAAT
From "The
Missing Link":
"Exactly how was I supposed to not drink if my
girlfriend breaks up with me, or if my best friend dies, or even through happy times
like graduations, weddings, and birthdays. They suggested I could just stay
sober one day at a time. They explained that it might be easier to set my
sights on the twenty-four hours in front of me and to take on these other
situations when and if they ever arrived. I decided to give sobriety a try, one
day at a time, and I've done it that way ever since."
(c) 2001
AAWS, Inc., Fourth Edition; Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 286-87
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FREEDOM FROM
"KING ALCOHOL"
. . . let us not
suppose even for an instant that we are not under
constraint... Our former tyrant, King Alcohol, always stands ready again
to clutch us to him. Therefore, freedom from alcohol is the great
"must" that has to be achieved, else we go mad or die.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 134
When drinking, I lived in spiritual,
emotional, and sometimes, physical confinement. I had constructed my
prison with bars of self-will and self-indulgence, from which I could not
escape. Occasional dry spells that seemed to promise freedom would turn
out to be little more than hopes of a reprieve. True escape required a
willingness to follow whatever right actions were needed to turn the
lock. With that willingness and action, both the lock and the bars themselves
opened for me. Continued willingness and action keep me free -- in a kind
of extended daily probation -- that need never end.
Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD
SERVICES, INC.
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The "Slipper" Needs
Understanding
"Slips can often be charged to
rebellion; some of us are more rebellious than others. Slips may be due to the
illusion that one can be 'cured' of alcoholism. Slips can also be charged to
carelessness and complacency. Many of us fail to ride out these periods sober.
Things go fine for two or three years--then the member is seen no more. Some of
us suffer extreme guilt because of vices or practices that we can't or won't
let go of. Too little self-forgiveness and too little prayer--well, this
combination adds up to slips. "Then
some of us are far more alcohol-damaged than others. Still others encounter a
series of calamities and cannot seem to find the spiritual resources to meet
them. There are those of us who are physically ill. Others are subject to more
or less continuous exhaustion, anxiety, and depression. These conditions often
play a part in slips--sometimes they are utterly controlling."
TALK, 1960
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"We know that while the alcoholic
keeps away from drink, as he may do for months or years, he reacts much like
other men. We are equally
positive that once he takes any alcohol whatever into his system,
something happens, both in the bodily and mental sense, which makes it
virtually impossible for him to stop. The experience of any alcoholic
will abundantly confirm this."
~Alcoholics
Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 22~
*~*~*~*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*~*~*~*
A.A. Thought for the Day
Third, alcoholics recover their
proper relationship with other people. They think less about themselves and
more about others. They try to help other alcoholics. They make new friends so
that they're no longer lonely. They try to live a life of service instead of
selfishness. All their relationships with other people are improved. They solve
their personality problems by recovering their personal integrity, their faith
in a Higher Power, and their way of fellowship and service to others. is my drink problem solved as long as my personality problem
is solved?
Meditation for the Day
All that depresses you, all that you
fear, is really powerless to harm you. These things are but phantoms. So arise
from earth's bonds, from depression, distrust, fear, and all that hinders your
new life. Arise to beauty, joy, peace, and work inspired by love. Rise from
death to life. You do not even need to fear death. All past sins are forgiven
if you live and love and work with God. Let nothing hinder your new life. Seek
to know more and more of that new way of living.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may let God live in me
as I work for Him.
I pray that I may go out into the sunlight and work with God