~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~
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Anger
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"Then the miracle happened
- to me! It isn't always so sudden with
everyone,
but I ran into a
personal crisis which filled me with a raging and righteous anger.
And as I fumed
helplessly and planned to get good and drunk and show them,
my eye caught a sentence
to the book lying open on my bed.
'We cannot live with
anger.' The walls crumpled - and the light streamed in.
I wasn't trapped. I
wasn't helpless. I was free, and I didn't have to drink to 'show them.'
This wasn't 'religion' -
this was freedom! Freedom from anger and fear,
freedom to know happiness and love."
©1976 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 228
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Thought to Consider ...
Anger is the hot wind that extinguishes the light of reason.
*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
NUTS Not Using The Steps?
*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*
Beginning
from: "Two
alcoholics meet"
"'I have placed both operation and myself in God's
hands. I'm going to do what it takes to get sober and stay that way.'
"Just before they
stopped [at the hospital, where Dr. Bob was to perform surgery], Bill, who also
had his practical side, gave him a bottle of beer...The bottle of beer Bill
gave him that morning was the last drink he [Dr. Bob] ever had. "Although
arguments have been and will be made for other significant occasions in A.A.
history, it is generally agreed that Alcoholics Anonymous began there, in
c. 1980, Dr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers, pages 74-75
*~*~*~*~*^Daily Reflections^*~*~*~*~*
IMPATIENT? TRY LEVITATING
We reacted more strongly
to frustrations than normal people.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 111
Impatience with other people is
one of my principal failings.
Following a slow car in
a no-passing lane, or waiting in a
restaurant for the
check, drives me to distraction. Before I
give God a chance to
slow me down, I explode, and that's what
I call being quicker
than God. That repeated experience gave
me an idea. I thought if
I could look down on these events
from God's point of
view, I might better control my feelings
and behavior. I tried it
and when I encountered the next slow
driver, I levitated and
looked down on the other car and upon
myself. I saw an elderly
couple driving along, happily chatting
about their
grandchildren. They were followed by me--bug eyed
and red of face--who had
no time schedule to meet anyway. I
looked so silly that I
dropped back into reality and slowed down.
Seeing things from God's
angle of vision can be very relaxing.
©Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS
ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.©
*~*~*~*~*^As Bill Sees It^*~*~*~*~*
Whose Inventory?
We do not relate intimate
experiences of another member unless we are sure he would approve.
We find it better, when
possible, to stick to our own stories.
A man may criticize or
laugh at himself and it will affect others favorably,
but criticism or ridicule
aimed at someone else produces the contrary effect.
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A continuous look at our
assets and liabilities, and a real desire to learn
and grow by this means
are necessities for us. We alcoholics have learned
this the hard way. More
experienced people, of course, in all times and
places have practiced
unsparing self-survey and criticism.
1. ALCOHOLICS ANOYMOUS, P. 125
2. TWELVE AND TWELVE, P.
88
*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
"We will seldom be interested in liquor. If tempted, we
recoil from
it as from a hot flame.
We react sanely and normally, and we will
find that this has
happened automatically. We will see that our new
attitude toward liquor
has been given us without any thought or
effort on our part. It
just comes!"
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 84~
*~*~*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*~*~*
A.A. Thought for the Day
If we have had some moral,
religious, or spiritual training,
we're better prospects
for A.A. When we reach the bottom, at
this crucial moment when
we're thoroughly licked, we turn
instinctively to
whatever decency is left in us. We call upon
whatever reserves of
morality and faith are left down deep in
our heart. Have I had
this spiritual experience?
Meditation
for the Day
The world wonders when it sees
a person who can unexpectedly draw large and unsuspected sums from the bank for
some emergency. But what the world has not seen are the countless small sums paid
into that bank, earned by faithful work over a long time. And so is the bank of
the spirit. The world sees the person of faith make a demand on God's stores of
power and the demand is met. The world does not see what that person has been
putting in, in thanks and praise, in prayer and communion, in small good deeds
done faithfully, steadily over the years.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may keep
making deposits in God's bank.
I pray that in my hour of
need, I may call upon these.