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Resentment
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"It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness.
To the precise extent that we permit these, do we squander the hours that might have been

worth while. But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual

experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave. We found that it is fatal.
For when harboring such feelings we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the Spirit.
The insanity of alcohol returns and we drink again. And with us, to drink is to die."
1976AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 66
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Thought to Consider . . .

We are prisoners of our own resentments.
Forgiveness unlocks the door and sets us free.

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F E A R  =  Frustration, Ego, Anxiety, Resentment

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Humility at Work

Tradition Twelve: "Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities."

"As this tide offering top public approval swept in, we realized that it could do us incalculable good or great harm. Everything would depend upon how it was channeled. We simply couldn't afford to take the chance of letting self-appointed members present themselves as messiahs representing A.A. before the whole public. The promoter instinct in us might be our undoing. If even one publicly got drunk, or was lured into using A.A.'s name for his own purposes, the damage might be irreparable. At this altitude (press, radio, films, and television), anonymity - 100 percent anonymity - was the only possible answer. Here, principles would have to come before personalities, without exception. "These experiences taught us that anonymity is real humility at work. It is an all-pervading spiritual quality which today keynotes A.A. life everywhere."

1981, AAWS, Inc., Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, page 187

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AN EVER-GROWING FREEDOM

The Seventh Step is where we make the change in our attitude which permits
us, with humility as our guide, to move out from ourselves toward others and toward God.  

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 76

When I finally asked God to remove those things blocking me from Him and the sunlight of the Spirit, I embarked on a journey more glorious than I ever imagined. I experienced a freedom from those characteristics that had me
wrapped up in myself.  Because of this humbling Step, I feel clean.

I am especially aware of this Step because I'm now able to be useful to God
and to my fellows.  I know that He has granted me strength to do His bidding
and has prepared me for anyone, and anything, that comes my way today.

I am truly in His hands, and I give thanks for the joy that I can be useful today.

Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
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Experimenters

We agnostics liked A.A. all right, and were quick to say that it had done
miracles. But we recoiled from meditation and prayer as obstinately as the
scientist who refused to perform a certain experiment lest it prove his pet
theory wrong. When we finally did experiment, and unexpected results followed, we felt
different; in fact, we knew different; and so we were sold on meditation and
prayer. And that, we have found, can happen to anybody who tries. It has been well said that

"Almost the only scoffers at prayer are those who never tried it enough."

TWELVE AND TWELVE, P. 97

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"We are people who normally would not mix. But there exists among us
a fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 17~

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Thought for the Day

A.A. members will tell you that they can look back and clearly see that they
were out of control long before they finally admitted it. Every one of us has
gone through that stage when we wouldn't admit that we were alcoholics. It
takes a lot of punishment to convince us, but one thing is certain. We all
know from actual experience that when it comes to dishing out punishment,
John Barleycorn has no equal. Have I any reservations as to my status as an alcoholic?

Meditation for the Day

There is a force for good in the world and when you are cooperating with that force for good, good things happen to you. You have free-will, the choice to be on the side of right or on the side of wrong. This force for good we call God's will. God has a purpose for the world and He has a purpose for your life. He wants you to bring all your desires into oneness with His desires. He can only work through people. If you try to make God's will your will, you will be guided by Him. You will be in the stream of goodness, carried along by everything that is right. You will be on God's side.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may try to make God's will my will.

I pray that I may keep in the stream of goodness in the world.