~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~
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Communication
From the beginning, communication
in AA has been no ordinary transmission of helpful ideas and
attitudes. Because of our kinship in suffering, and because our common means of deliverance
are effective for
ourselves only when constantly carried to
others, our
channels of contact have
always been charged with the language of the heart.
c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 195
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Thought to Consider . . .
Listening feeds the spirit.
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A R E = Comforting And Reassuring Each other
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Obedience
Tradition
One: Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A.
unity.
"Every
newcomer, every friend who looks at A.A. for the first time is greatly puzzled.
They see liberty verging on license, yet they recognize at once that A.A. has
an irresistible strength of purpose and action....The A.A. member has to
conform to the principles of recovery. His life depends upon obedience to
spiritual principles."
(c) 1981, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pages 129-30
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"WE PAUSE ... AND ASK"
As
we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful and ask for the right
thought or action.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 87
Today
I humbly ask my Higher Power for the grace to find the space between my impulse
and my action; to let flow a cooling breeze when I would respond with heat; to
interrupt fierceness with gentle peace; to accept the moment which allows
judgment to become discernment; to defer to silence when my tongue would rush
to attack or defend.
I promise to watch for
every opportunity to turn toward my Higher Power for guidance. I know
where this power is: it resides within me, as clear as a
I thank my Higher Power
for this world of light and truth I see when I allow it to direct my
vision. I trust it today and hope it trusts me to make all effort to find
the right thought or action today.
©Copyright
1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.©
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Light from a Prayer
"God
grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to
change the things we can,
and the wisdom to know the
difference."
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We treasure our
"Serenity Prayer" because it brings a new light to us that can
dissipate our oldtime and nearly
fatal habit of fooling ourselves. In the radiance of this prayer we see
that defeat, rightly accepted, need be no disaster.
We now know that we do not
have to run away, nor ought we again try to overcome adversity by still another
bulldozing power drive that can only push up
obstacles before us faster than they can be taken down.
GRAPEVINE, MARCH 1962
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"If,
when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely,
or if when drinking, you
have little control over the amount you take,
you are probably
alcoholic. If that be the case, you may be
suffering from an illness
which only a spiritual experience will conquer."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 44~
*~*~*~*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*~*~*~*
A.A. Thought for the Day
In A.A. we're all through with lying, hangovers, remorse, and
wasting money. When we were drinking, we were only half alive. Now that we're
trying to live decent, honest, unselfish lives, we're really alive. Life has a
new meaning for us, so that we can really enjoy it. We feel that we're some use
in the world. We're on the right side of the fence, instead of on the wrong
side. We can look the world in the face instead of hiding in alleys. We come
into A.A. to get sober and if we stay long enough, we learn a new way of
living. Am I convinced that no matter how much fun I got out of drinking, that
life never was as good as the life I can build in A.A.?
Meditation for the Day
I want to be at one with
the Divine Spirit of the universe. I will set my deepest affections on things
spiritual, not on things material. As we think, so we are. So I will think of
and desire that which will help, not hinder, my spiritual growth. I will try to
be at one with God. No human aspiration can reach higher than this.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may think
love, and love will surround me.
I pray that I may think health, and health will come to me