~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~
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Carry the Message
Taking advantage of technological
advances, AA members with computers
can participate in meetings online, sharing
with fellow alcoholics across the country
or around the world. Fundamentally,
though, the difference
between an electronic meeting and the
home group around the corner
is only one of format. In any
meeting, anywhere, AA's share experience,
strength, and hope with each other, in
order to stay sober and help other alcoholics.
Modem-to-modem or face-to-face, AA's
speak the language of the heart
in all its power and simplicity.
c.
2001AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, Foreword to Fourth Edition, p. xxiv
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Thought to Consider . . .
We in AA don't carry the alcoholic;
we carry the message.
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H E A R T = Healing, Enjoying, And Recovering, Together.
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F A I T H =
Finding Answers In The Heart
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Rewards
From "He Lived
Only to Drink":
"The rewards of sobriety are
bountiful and as progressive as the disease they counteract. Certainly among
these rewards for me are release from the prison of uniqueness, and the
realization that participation in the A.A. way of life is a blessing and
privilege beyond estimate a blessing to live a life free from the
pain and degradation of drinking and filled with the joy of useful, sober
living, and a privilege to grow in sobriety one day at a time and bring the
message of hope as it was brought to me."
� 2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth
Edition; Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 451
*~*~*~*~*^Daily Reflections^*~*~*~*~*
WE CAN'T THINK OUR WAY SOBER
To the
intellectually self-sufficient man or woman, many A.A.'s
can say, "Yes, we were like you -- far too smart for our own good . .
. Secretly, we felt we could float above the rest of the folks on our
brain power alone."
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 60
Even the most
brilliant mind is no defense against the disease of alcoholism. I can't
think my way sober. I try to remember that intelligence is a God-given
attribute that I may use, a joy -- like having a talent for dancing or drawing
or carpentry. It does not make me better than anyone else, and it is not
a particularly reliable tool for recovery, for it is a power greater than
myself who will restore me to sanity -- not a high IQ or a college degree.
�Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS
ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.�
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Daily Acceptance
"Too much
of my life has been spent in dwelling upon the faults of others. This is a most
subtle and perverse form of self-satisfaction, which permits us to remain
comfortably unaware of our own defects. Too often we are heard to say, 'If it
weren't for him (or her), how happy I'd be!'"
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Our very first problem is to accept our
present circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, and the people about us
as they are. This is to adopt a realistic humility without which no genuine advance
can even begin. Again and again, we shall need to return to that unflattering
point of departure. This is an exercise in acceptance that we can profitably
practice every day of our lives. Provided
we strenuously avoid turning these realistic surveys of the facts of life into
unrealistic alibis for apathy or defeatism, they can be the sure foundation
upon which increased emotional health and therefore spiritual progress can be
built.
1.
LETTER, 1966 - 2. GRAPEVINE, MARCH 1962
Copyright�1967 Alcoholics
Anonymous World Services, Inc
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"Suppose
we fall short of the chosen ideal and stumble? Does this
mean we are going to get drunk? Some
people tell us so. But this is
only a half-truth. It depends on us and
on our motives."
~Alcoholics
Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, Page 70~
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A.A. Thought for the Day
Sometimes
we can't help thinking: Why can't we ever drink again? We know it's because we're
alcoholics, but why did we have to get that way? The answer is that at some
time in our drinking careers, we passed what is called our "tolerance
point." When we passed this point, we passed from a condition in which we
could tolerate alcohol to a condition in which we could not tolerate it at all.
After that, if we took one drink, we would sooner or later end up drunk. When I
think of liquor now, do I think of it as something that I can never tolerate
again?
Meditation for the Day
In a
race, it is when the goal is in sight that heart and nerves and muscles and
courage are strained almost to the breaking point. So with
us. The goal of the spiritual life is in sight. All we need is the final
effort. The saddest records are made by people who ran well, with brave, stout
hearts, until the sight of the goal and then some weakness or self indulgence
held them back. They never knew how near the goal they were or how near they
were to victory.
Prayer for
the Day
I pray that I may press on until the
goal is reached.
I pray that I may not give up in the final stretch