~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~
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Promises

We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past
nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.
No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.
That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. Self-seeking will slip away.
Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle
situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us
what we could not do for ourselves. Are these extravagant promises?
We think not.
They are being fulfilled among us -- sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.
They will always materialize if we work for them.
c. 1976, 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 83-4
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Thought to Consider . . .

It works -- it really does.


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G R A C E =  Gently Releasing All Conscious Expectations.

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Seed

Step One: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.

"It was then discovered that when one alcoholic had planted in the mind of another the true nature of his malady, that person could never be the same again. Following every spree, he would say to himself, 'Maybe those A.A.’s were right. . . .' After a few such experiences, often years before the onset of extreme difficulties, he would return to us convinced. He had hit bottom as truly as any of us. John Barleycorn himself had become our best advocate."

� 1952, AAWS, Inc.; Printed 2005; Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pgs. 23-24

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"I AM A MIRACLE'

The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty that our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a way which is indeed miraculous.  He has commenced to accomplish those things for us which we could never do by ourselves.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.  25

This truly is a fact in my life today, and a real miracle.  I always believed in God, but could never put that belief meaningfully into my life.  Today, because of Alcoholics Anonymous, I now trust and rely on God, as I understand Him; I am sober today because of that!  Learning to trust and rely on God was something I could never have done alone.  I now believe in miracles because I am one!

�Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.�
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Personality Change

"It has often been said of A.A. that we are interested only in alcoholism. This is not true. We have to get over drinking in order to stay alive. But anyone who knows the alcoholic personality by firsthand contact knows that no true alky ever stops drinking permanently without undergoing a profound personality change."

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We thought "conditions" drove us to drink, and when we tried to correct these conditions and found that we couldn't do so to our entire satisfaction, our drinking went out of hand and we became alcoholics. It never occurred to us that we needed to change ourselves to meet conditions, whatever they were.

1. LETTER, 1940 - 2. TWELVE AND TWELVE, p. 47
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"We have three little mottoes which are apropos.
Here they are:

First Things First
Live and Let Live
Easy Does It."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Family Afterward, pg. 135~
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A.A. Thought for the Day

When I came into A.A., was I a desperate person? Did I have a soul-sickness? Was I so sick of myself and my way of living that I couldn't stand looking at myself in a mirror? Was I ready for A.A.? Was I ready to try anything that would help me to get sober and to get over my soul-sickness? Should I ever forget the condition I was in?

Meditation for the Day

In the New Year, I will live one day at a time. I will make each day one of preparation for better things ahead. I will not dwell on the past of the future, only on the present. I will bury every fear of the future, all thoughts of unkindness and bitterness, all my dislikes, my resentments, my sense of failure, my disappointments in others and in myself, my gloom and my despondency. I will leave all these things buried and go forward, in this New Year, into a new life.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that God will guide me one day at a time in the New Year.

I pray that for each day, God will supply the wisdom and the strength that I need.