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Gratitude
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"Another exercise that I
practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings
and then for a right
acceptance of the many gifts that are mine - both temporal and spiritual.
Here I try to achieve a
state of joyful gratitude. When
such a brand of gratitude is repeatedly affirmed
and pondered, it can finally
displace the natural tendency to congratulate myself on whatever progress
I may have been enabled
to make in some areas of living. I
try hard to hold fast to the truth
that a full and thankful
heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude,
one's heartbeat must
surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion that we can ever
know."
Bill W., March 1962
©1988AAGrapevine, The
Language of the Heart, p. 271
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Thought to Consider . . .
I have learned what a heart full of gratitude feels like.
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T H
I N K = The Happiness I
Never Knew
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Doubt
From
"We Agnostics":
"Its main object is
to enable you to find a Power greater than yourself which will solve your
problem. That means we have written a book which we believe to be spiritual as
well as moral. And it means, of course, that we are going to talk about God.
Here difficulty arises with agnostics. Many times we talk to a new man and
watch his hope rise as we discuss his alcoholic problems and explain our
fellowship. But his face falls when we speak of spiritual matters, especially
when we mention God, for we have re-opened a subject which our man thought he
had neatly evaded or entirely ignored.
"We know how he
feels. We have shared his honest doubt and prejudice."
© 2001
AAWS, Inc., Fourth Edition; Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 44
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FAMILY OBLIGATIONS
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. . a spiritual life which does not include . . . family obligations may not be
so perfect after all.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS p. 129
I
can be doing great in the program -- applying it at meetings, at work, and in
service activities -- and find that things have gone to pieces at home. I
expect my loved ones to understand, but they cannot. I expect them to see
and value my progress, but they don't -- unless I show them. Do I neglect
their needs and desires for my attention and concern? When I'm around
them, am I irritable or boring? Are my "amends" a mumbled
"Sorry," or do they take the form of patience and tolerance? Do
I preach to them, trying to reform or "fix" them? Have I ever
really cleaned house with them? "The spiritual life is not a
theory. We have to live it"
(Alcoholics Anonymous,
p. 83).
©Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS
ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.©
*~*~*~*~*^As Bill Sees It^*~*~*~*~*
"Let's Keep It simple"
"We
need to distinguish sharply between spiritual simplicity and functional simplicity.
"When we say that
A.A. advocates no theological proposition except God as we understand Him,
we greatly simplify
A.A. life by avoiding conflict and exclusiveness.
"But when we get
into questions of action by groups, by areas, and by A.A. as a whole, we find
that we must to some
extent organize to carry the message--or else face chaos. And chaos is not
simplicity."
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I learned that the
temporary or seeming good can often be the deadly enemy of the permanent best.
When it comes to
survival for A.A., nothing short of our very best will be good enough.
1. LETTER, 1966
2. A.A. COMES OF AGE, P.
294
*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
"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
We
alcoholics have to believe in some Power greater than
ourselves. Yes, we have
to believe in God. Not to believe in
a Higher Power drives us
to atheism. Atheism, it has been
said before, is blind
faith in the strange proposition that
this universe originated
in a cipher and aimlessly rushes
nowhere. That's
practically impossible to believe. So we turn
to that Divine Principle
in the universe that we call God.
Have I stopped trying to
run my own life?
Meditation
for the Day
"Lord, we thank
Thee for the great gift of peace, that peace
which passeth all
understanding, that peace which the world
can neither give nor
take away." That is the peace that only
God can give in the
midst of a restless world and surrounded
by trouble and
difficulty. To know that peace is to have
received the stamp of
the
peace, you are fit to
judge between true and false values, between the values of the
Kingdom of God and the
values of all that the world has to offer.
Prayer
for the Day
I pray that today I may
have inner peace.
I pray that today I may
be at peace with myself.