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Let Go
If you have decided you want what we have and
are willing to go to any length to get it --
then you are ready to take certain
steps. At some of these
we balked. We thought
we could find an
easier, softer way. But
we could not. With all the
earnestness at our command, we beg of you to be
fearless and thorough
from the very start. Some
of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas
and the result was nil until we let go
absolutely. Remember we
deal with alcohol -- cunning, baffling,
powerful! Without help it is too much for us. But there is One who has all
power -- that One is God.
May you find Him now!
c. 1976, 2001AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 58
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Thought to Consider . . .
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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H
O P E = Heart Open; Please Enter
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Safe
From "Good
Housekeeping" article, 1954:
"When you stand
outside a room where a group of Alcoholics Anonymous is meeting, the most
frequent sound you hear is laughter. Mellow laughter, which can come only
from people who have looked destruction and catastrophe in the face, not once
but continuously over long years, and now are free and unafraid. The
laughter, in short, of people who hold God's hand and feel safe."
c. Letter
to a Woman Alcoholic (A.A. Pamphlet P-14)
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PRINCIPLES, NOT PERSONALITIES
The way our
"worthy" alcoholics have sometimes tried to judge the "less
worthy" is, as we look back on it, rather comical. Imagine, if you can, one alcoholic judging another!
THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEART, p. 37
Who am I to judge anyone? When I first
entered the Fellowship I found that I liked everyone. After all, A.A. was
going to help me to a better way of life without alcohol. The reality was
that I couldn't possibly like everyone, nor they me. As I've grown in the
Fellowship, I've learned to love everyone just from listening to what they had
to say. That person over there, or the one right here, may be the one God
has chosen to give me the message I need for today. I must always
remember to place principles above personalities.
©Copyright
1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.©
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Recovery Through Giving
For a new prospect, outline the program of action, explaining how you
made a self-appraisal, how you straightened out your past, and why you are now
endeavoring to be helpful to him. It is important for him to realize that your
attempt to pass this on to him plays a vital part in your own recovery.
Actually, he may be helping you more than you are helping him. Make it plain
that he is under no obligation to you.
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In the first six months of my own sobriety,
I worked hard with many alcoholics. Not a one responded. Yet this work kept me
sober. It wasn't a question of those alcoholics giving me anything. My
stability came out of trying to give, not out of demanding that I receive.
1. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 94 - 2. GRAPEVINE, JANUARY 1958
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"Once
more: The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental
defense against the first drink. Except
in a few rare cases, neither
he nor any other human being can provide
such a defense. His defense
must come from a Higher Power."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More About Alcoholism,
pg. 43~
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A.A. Thought for the Day
As we look back over our drinking careers, we must realize that our
lives were a mess because we were a mess inside. The trouble was in us, not in
life itself. Life itself was good enough, but we were looking at it the wrong
way. We were looking at life through the bottom of a whiskey glass, and it was
distorted. We could not see all the beauty and goodness and purpose in the
world because our vision was blurred. We were in a house with one-way glass in
the windows. People could see us but we could not look out and see them and see
what life meant to them and should mean to us. We were blind then, but now we
can see. Can I now look at life as it really is?
Meditation
for the Day
Fear no evil, because the power of God
can conquer evil. Evil has power to seriously hurt only those who do not place
themselves under the protection of the Higher Power. This is not a question of feeling, it is an assured fact of our experience. Say to
yourself with assurance that whatever it is, no evil can seriously harm you as long
as you depend on the Higher Power. Be sure of the protection of God's grace.
Prayer
for the Day
I pray that fear of evil will not get
me down.
I pray that I may try to place myself today
under the protection of God's grace.