~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~
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Fellowship
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"The fellowship I found in
AA enabled me to face my problem honestly and squarely.
I couldn't do it among
my relatives, I couldn't do it among my friends.
No one likes to admit
they're a drunk, that they can't control this thing.
But when we come into
AA, we can face our problem honestly and openly.
I went to closed
meetings and open meetings. And I took everything that AA had to give me.
It was at that point I
reached surrender."
©1976AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 340
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Thought to Consider . . .
We honor the spirit in other people when we listen to them.
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C
A R E =
Comforting And Reassuring Each other.
*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*
Gradually
From "How Do We Stay away from Drinking?"
"We change
ourselves, gradually, day
to day. We help
other alcoholics. And,
by helping, we stay
sober, sane and happy.
For the first time in
our lives, we've
found real
freedom. For we have broken
out of the dim prison of
alcoholic
drinking that was
closing in around us.
Now we are free to
discover who we are,
who we hope to become,
who we were meant to be."
c. 1992,
Young People and A.A.
(A.A. Pamphlet P-4),
page 8
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LISTENING DEEPLY
How persistently we
claim the right to decide all by
ourselves just what we
shall think and just how we shall act.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 37
If I accept and act upon the advice of those who have
made the program work
for themselves, I have a chance to
outgrow the limits of
the past. Some problems will shrink
to nothingness, while
others may require patient, well-thought-out action.
Listening deeply when
others share
can develop intuition in
handling problems which arise
unexpectedly. It is
usually best for me to avoid impetuous
action. Attending a
meeting or calling a fellow A. A.
member will usually reduce
tension enough to bring relief
to a desperate sufferer
like me. Sharing problems at
meetings with other
alcoholics to whom I relate, or
privately with my
sponsor, can change aspects of the
positions in which I
find myself. Character defects are
identified and I begin
to see how they work against me.
When I put my faith in
the spiritual power of the program,
when I trust other to
teach me what I need to do to have a
better life, I find that
I can trust myself to do what is necessary.
©Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS
ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.©
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Hope Born from Hopelessness
Letter
to Dr. Carl Jung:
"Most
conversion experiences, whatever their variety, do have a common denominator of
ego collapse at depth. The individual faces an impossible dilemma. "In
my case the dilemma had been created by my compulsive drinking, and the deep
feeling of hopelessness had been vastly deepened by my doctor. It was deepened
still more by my alcoholic friend when he acquainted me with your verdict of
hopelessness respecting Rowland H. "In the wake of my spiritual experience
there came a vision of a society of alcoholics. If each sufferer were to carry
the news of the scientific hopelessness of alcoholism to each new prospect, he
might be able to lay every newcomer wide open to a transforming spiritual
experience. This concept proved to be the foundation of such success as A.A.
has since achieved."
GRAPEVINE, JANUARY 1963
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"When you discover a prospect for Alcoholics Anonymous,
find out all
you can about him. If he
does not want to stop drinking, don't
waste time trying to
persuade him. You may spoil a later opportunity."
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Working With Others, pg. 90
"So
our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. They
arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example of
self-will run riot,
though he usually doesn't think so."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 62~
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A.A. Thought for the Day
We in A.A. are offering
a spiritual program. The fundamental
basis of A.A. is belief
in some Power greater than ourselves.
This belief takes us off
the center of the universe and
allows us to transfer
our problems to some power outside of
ourselves. We turn to
this Power for the strength we need to
get sober and stay
sober. We put our drink problem in God's
hands and leave it
there. We stop trying to run our own life
and seek to let God run
it for us. Do I do my best to give spiritual help?
Meditation
for the Day
God is your healer and
your strength. You do not have to ask
Him to come to you. He
is always with you in spirit. At your
moment of need He is
there to help you. Could you know God's
love and His desire to
help you, you would know that He needs
no pleading for help.
Your need is God's opportunity. You must
learn to rely on God's
strength whenever you need it. Whenever
you feel inadequate to
any situation, you should realize that
the feeling of
inadequacy is disloyalty to God. Just say to
yourself. I know that
God is with me and will help me to think
and say and do the right
thing,
Prayer
for the Day
I pray that I may never
feel inadequate to any situation.
I pray that I may be buoyed up by the feeling that God is with me.