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Powerless
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"I had no problem
admitting I was powerless over alcohol, and I certainly agreed that my life had
become
unmanageable. I had only
to reflect on the contrast between the plans I made so many years ago for my
life with what really happened to know I couldn't manage my life drunk or
sober.
AA taught me that willingness
to believe was enough for a beginning."
1976AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 550
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Thought to Consider . . .
Life didn't end when I got sober ... it started.
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C T I O N =
Any Change To Improve Our Natures
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Like
the Effect
from:
"The Doctor's Opinion"
"Men and women drink essentially
because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive
that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate
the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal
one. They are restless, irritable and discontented, unless they can again
experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few
drinks - drinks which they see others taking with impunity. After they have
succumbed to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon of craving
develops, they pass through the well-known stages of a spree, emerging
remorseful, with a firm resolution not to drink again. This is repeated over
and over, and unless this person can experience an entire psychic change there
is very little hope of his recovery."
2001, AAWS, Inc., Alcoholics
Anonymous, pages xxviii-xxix
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A NOURISHING INGREDIENT
Where
humility had formerly stood for a forced feeding on humble pie, it now begins
to mean the nourishing ingredient which can give us serenity.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 74
How often do I focus on my problems and frustrations? When I
am having a "good day" these same problems shrink in importance and
my preoccupation with them dwindles. Wouldn't it be better if I could
find a key to unlock the "magic" of my "good days" for use
on the woes of my "bad days"?
I already have the
solution! Instead of trying to run away from my pain and wish my problems away,
I can pray for humility! Humility will heal the pain. Humility will
take me out of myself. Humility, that strength granted
to me by that "power greater than myself," is mine for the
asking! Humility will bring balance back into my life. Humility
will allow me to accept my humanness joyously.
Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
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The Language of the Heart
Why,
at this particular point in history, has God chosen to communicate His
healing grace to so many
of us? Every aspect of this global unfoldment can be
related to a single crucial word. The word is communication among ourselves,
with the world around us, and with God.
From the beginning,
communication in A.A. 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.
A.A. TODAY, PP. 7-8
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He Sold Himself Short - But he found that there was a Higher
Power which had more faith in him than he had in himself. Thus, A.A. was
born in
The day before I was due
to go back to Chicago, a Wednesday and Dr. Bob's afternoon off, he had me down
to the office and we spent three or four hours formally going through the
Six-Step program as it was at that time. The six
steps were:
1. Complete deflation.
2.
Dependence and guidance from a Higher Power.
3. Moral
Inventory.
4. Confession.
5. Restitution.
6. Continued work
with other alcoholics.
2001, Alcoholics Anonymous, page
266
*~*~*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*~*~*
A.A.
Thought For The Day
One of the best things
about the A.A. program is the peace of mind and serenity that it can bring
us. In our
drinking days, we had
no peace of mind or serenity. We had the exact opposite, a kind
of turmoil and that
"quiet
desperation" we knew so well. The turmoil of our drinking days was
caused partly by our physical suffering, the terrible hangovers, the cold
sweats, the shakes and the jitters. But it was caused even more by our
mental suffering, the loneliness, the feeling of inferiority, the lying, the remorse
that every alcoholic understands. Have I achieved more peace
of mind?
Meditation
For The Day
Try to look for God's leading in all your personal relationships,
in all your dealings
with other persons. God will help you
to take care of all your
relationships with people, if you are willing to let
Him guide
you. Rejoice that God can protect
you and keep you from
temptation and failure.
God can protect you in
all situations during the day, if you
will rely on His
strength and go forward. You should feel that you
are entering upon
the stage of success in the proper way of living.
You should not
doubt that better things are ahead for you. Go
forward unafraid
because you feel deeply safe under God's protection.
Prayer
For The Day
I
pray that God may protect and keep me as long as I try to serve Him.
I pray that I may go forward today unafraid.