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Change
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"Let us never fear needed
change. Certainly we have to discriminate
between
changes for worse and
changes for better. But once a need becomes clearly
apparent
in an individual, in a
group, or in AA as a whole, it has long since been found out
that we cannot stand
still and look the other way. The
essence of all growth is a willingness
to change for the better
and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this
entails."
Bill W., Grapevine, July 1965
1967AAWS, As Bill
Sees It, p. 115
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Thought to Consider . . .
God used two people to create me;
He used a whole
Fellowship to change me.
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A
C T I O N =
Any Change Toward Improving One's Nature.
*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*
Steps
From
"The Three Legacies of Alcoholics Anonymous":
"Though subject to considerable
variation, it all boiled down into a pretty consistent procedure which
comprised six steps. These were approximately as follows:
1. "We admitted that we were licked, that we
were powerless over alcohol.
2. "We made a moral inventory of our defects
or sins.
3. "We confessed or shared our
shortcomings with another person in confidence.
4. "We made restitution to all those we
have harmed by our drinking.
5. "We tried to help other alcoholics, with no
thought of reward in money or prestige.
6. We prayed to whatever God we thought
there was for power to practice these precepts.
"This was the substance of what, by
the fall of 1938, we were telling newcomers. Several of the
2001 AAWS, Inc.; Alcoholics
Anonymous Comes of Age, pg. 160
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FEAR AND FAITH
The
achievement of freedom from fear is a lifetime undertaking, one that can never
be wholly completed. When under heavy attack, acute illness, or in other
conditions of serious insecurity, we shall all react to this emotion -- well or
badly, as the case may be. Only the self-deceived will claim perfect
freedom from fear.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 263
Fear
has caused suffering when I could have had more faith. There are times
when fear suddenly tears me apart, just when I'm experiencing feelings of joy,
happiness and a lightness of heart. Faith and a feeling of self-worth
toward a Higher Power -- helps me endure tragedy and ecstasy. When I
choose to give all of my fears over to my Higher Power, I will be free.
Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
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This Matter of Honesty
"Only
God can fully know what absolute honesty is. Therefore, each of us has to
conceive what this
great ideal may
be--to the best or our ability. "Fallible as we all are, and will be in
this life, it would
be presumption to suppose
that we could ever really achieve absolute honesty. The best we can
do is to strive for a better
quality of honesty. "Sometimes we need to place love ahead of
indiscriminate
'factual honesty.' We
cannot, under the guise of 'perfect honesty,' cruelly and unnecessarily
hurt others. Always one
must ask, 'What is the best and most loving thing I can do?' "
LETTER, 1966
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"Although financial recovery is on the way for many of us,
we found
we could not place money
first. For us, material well-being always
followed spiritual
progress; it never preceded."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Family Afterward, pg.
127~
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A.A. Thought for the Day
Intelligent
faith in that Power greater than ourselves can
be counted on to
stabilize our emotions. It has an
incomparable capacity to
help us look at life in balanced
perspective. We look up,
around, and away from ourselves,
and we see that nine out
of ten things that at the moment
upset us
will shortly disappear. Problems solve themselves,
criticism and unkindness
vanish as though they had never
been. Have I got the
proper perspective toward life?
Meditation for the Day
A truly spiritual man or woman would
like to have a serene
mind. The only way to
keep calm in this troubled world is to
have a serene mind. The
calm and sane mind sees spiritual
things as the true
realities and material things as only
temporary and fleeting.
That sort of mind you can never obtain
by reasoning, because
your reasoning powers are limited by
space and time. That
kind of a mind you can never obtain by
reading, because other
minds are also limited in the same way.
You can only have that
mind by an act of faith, by making the venture of belief.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may have a calm and sane mind.
I pray that I may look
up, around, and away from myself.