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Gratitude
"One
exercise that I practice is to
try for a full inventory of my blessings and then for a right acceptance
of the many gifts that
are mine-- both
temporal and spiritual. Here
I try to achieve a state of joyful gratitude.
When such a brand of
gratitude is
repeatedly affirmed and pondered, it can finally displace the natural
tendency to
congratulate myself on
whatever progress I
may have been enabled to make in certain areas of living.
I try hard to hold fast
to the truth that
a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits.
When brimming with
gratitude, one's
heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love,
the finest emotion that
we can ever know."
Bill W.,
As Bill Sees It, p. 37
Thought to Consider . . .
It's
a pity we can't forget our troubles
the same way we forget
our blessings.
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GIFTS
Getting It From The Steps
*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*
Progress
From
"Gutter Bravado":
"Still very
impatient, I wanted the whole deal right away. That's why I related so well to
the story about a wide-eyed new person and an oldtimer.
When the newcomer approached the oldtimer, envying
his accomplishments and many years of sobriety, the oldtimer
slapped down his hand like a gavel and said, 'I'll trade you even! My thirty
years to your thirty days--right now!' He knew what the newcomer had yet to
find out: that true happiness is found in the journey, not the
destination."
(c) 2001
AAWS, Inc., Fourth Edition; Alcoholics Anonymous, pgs. 510-11
*~*~*~*~*^Daily Reflections^*~*~*~*~*
A.A. IS NOT A CURE-ALL
It
would be a product of false pride to claim that A.A. is a cure-all, even for
alcoholism.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 285
In
my early years of sobriety I was full of pride, thinking that A.A. was the only
source of treatment for a good and happy life. It certainly was the basic
ingredient for my sobriety and even today, with over twelve years in the
program, I am very involved in meetings, sponsorship and service. During
the first four years of my recovery, I found it necessary to seek professional
help, since my emotional health was extremely poor. There are those folks
too, who have found sobriety and happiness in other organizations. A.A.
taught me that I had a choice: to go to any lengths to enhance my
sobriety. A.A. may not be a cure-all for everything, but it is the center
of my sober living.
(c)Copyright
1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.(c)
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To Be Fair-Minded
Too
often, I think, we have deprecated and even derided projects of our friends in
the field of alcoholism just because we do not always see eye to eye with them. We should very seriously ask ourselves
how many alcoholics have gone on drinking simply because we have failed to
cooperate in good spirit with these many agencies--whether they be good, bad,
or indifferent. No alcoholic should go mad or die merely because he did not
come straight to A.A. at the beginning.
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Our first objective will
be the development of self-restraint. This carries a top-priority rating. When
we speak or act hastily or rashly, the ability to be fair-minded and tolerant
evaporates on the spot.
1. GRAPEVINE, JULY 1965
2. TWELVE AND TWELVE, P.
91
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"We alcoholics are men and women who have lost the ability
to control our drinking. We know that no real alcoholic ever recovers
control. All of us felt at times that we were regaining control, but such intervals usually brief were
inevitably followed by still less
control, which led in
time to pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization. We are convinced to a
man that alcoholics of our
type are in the grip of
a progressive illness. Over any considerable period we get worse, never
better."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More About Alcoholism, pg.
30~
*~*~*~*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*~*~*~*
A.A. Thought for the Day
Men and women keep coming into A.A., licked by alcohol, often
given up by doctors as hopeless cases, they themselves admitting they're
helpless to stop drinking. When I see these men and women get sober and stay
sober over a period of months and years, I know that A.A. works. The change I
see in people who come into A.A. not only convinces me that A.A. works, but it
also convinces me that there must be a Power greater than ourselves which helps
us to make that change. Am I convinced that a Higher Power can help me to
change?
Meditation for the Day
Cooperation with God is the great necessity for our lives. All else follows naturally. Cooperation with God is the
result of our consciousness of His presence. Guidance is bound to come to us as
we live more and more with God, as our consciousness becomes more and more
attuned to the great Consciousness of the universe. We must have many quiet
times when we not so much ask to be shown and led by God, as to feel and
realize His presence. New spiritual growth comes naturally from cooperation
with God.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that God may supply me with strength and show me the
direction in which He wants me to grow.
I pray that these things may come naturally from my cooperation with Him