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Wonders
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"Out of every season of
grief or suffering,
when the hand of God
seemed heavy or even unjust,
new lessons for living
were learned,
new resources of courage
were uncovered,
and that finally,
inescapably,
the conviction came that
God does
'move in a mysterious
way His wonders to perform.' "
1953AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 105
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Thought to Consider . . .
Joy is the infallible presence of God.
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G
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Good Orderly Direction
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School
Vacation
From:
"Building a New Life"
The next summer I
began working construction during school vacation. I was working with the older
men, and at the end of the day, I went to the bar with them. The bartender
would put the beer in front of the man next to me, but it was intended for me.
I loved Fridays - payday - when we went out and got loaded. I started getting
liquor on weekends so I could go to dances. I was hanging around with guys who drank like me. We'd put
our money together to get enough booze for the night, and because I looked
older, I bought the liquor. I could talk to the girls. I was a big shot with
the guys because I had the booze and the girls.
2001, AAWS, Inc., Alcoholics Anonymous, page 477
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LIVING IT
The
spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 83
When
new in the program, I couldn't comprehend living the spiritual aspect of the
program, but now that I'm sober, I can't comprehend living without it. Spirituality was what I had been
seeking. God, as I understand Him, has given me answers to the whys that
kept me drinking for twenty years. By living a spiritual life, by asking
God for help, I have learned to love, care for and feel compassion for all my
fellow men, and to feel joy in a world where, before, I felt only fear.
Alcoholics
Anonymous is the easier, softer way.
Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
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Complete the Housecleaning
Time
after time, newcomers have tried to keep to themselves shoddy facts
about their lives.
Trying to avoid the humbling experience of the Fifth Step,
they have turned to
easier methods. Almost invariably they got drunk. Having persevered with the
rest of the program, they wondered why they fell. We think the reason is that
they never completed their housecleaning. They took inventory all right, but
hung on to some of the worst items in stock. They only thought they had lost
their egoism and fear; they only thought they had humbled themselves. But they
had not learned enough of humility, fearlessness, and honesty, in the sense we
find it necessary, until they told someone else their entire life story.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pp. 72-73
One
of the new thinking habits a recovering alcoholic can develop is a calm
view of himself or
herself as someone who needs to avoid chemicals (alcohol and other drugs that
are substitutes for it) if he or she wants to maintain good health. We have as
evidence our own drinking days, a total of hundreds of thousands of man-or
woman-years of a whale of a lot of drinking. We know that, as the drinking
years went by, our problems related to drinking continually worsened. Alcoholism is progressive.
Living Sober p. 7,8
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"Yes, there is a substitute and it is vastly more than
that. It is a
fellowship in Alcoholics
Anonymous. There you will find release from
care, boredom and worry.
Your imagination will be fired. Life will
mean something at last.
The most satisfactory years of your
existence lie
ahead."
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For
You, pg. 152
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A.A. Thought for the Day
The Alcoholics Anonymous program has
borrowed from
medicine, psychiatry,
and religion. It has taken from
these
what
it wanted and combined them into the program
which it considers best
suited to the alcoholic mind and
which will best help the
alcoholic to recover. The
results have been very
satisfactory. We do not try to
improve on the A.A.
program. Its value has been proved
by the success it has
had in helping thousands of
alcoholics to recover.
It has everything we alcoholics
need to arrest our
illness. Do I try to follow the A.A.
program just as it is?
Meditation for the Day
You should strive for a
union between your purposes in
life and the purposes of
the Divine Principle directing
the universe. There is
no bond of union on earth to
compare with the union
between a human soul and God.
Priceless beyond all
earth's rewards is that union. In
merging your heart and
mind with the heart and mind of
the Higher Power, a oneness of purpose results, which
only those who experience
it can even dimly realize.
That oneness of purpose
puts you in harmony with God and
with all others who are
trying to do His will.
Prayer
for the Day
I pray that I may become
attuned to the will of God.
I pray that I may be in
harmony with the music of the spheres.