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Spirituality
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"Do not let any prejudice
you may have against spiritual terms deter you
from honestly asking
yourself what they mean to you. At the start, this was all we needed
to commence spiritual
growth, to effect our first conscious relation with
God
as we understood Him. Afterward,
we found ourselves accepting many things
which then seemed
entirely out of reach. That was growth, but if we wished to grow
we had to begin
somewhere. So we used our own conception, however limited it was."
1976AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 47
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Thought to Consider . . .
The solution is simple.
The solution is
spiritual.
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S
O B E R = Spiritually On
Beam; Everything's Right
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Realization
From "An Open Heart":
"Suddenly, the words on the page hit
me: 'The number of times that you win or lose is not important. The only thing
that matters is the number of times that you try.' For several years I had
tried to get someone else to solve my problem for me, but I had not realized I
was doing so until that moment of insight. '... That you try.' I was
exhilarated. Now I knew that I was an alcoholic and that I had the only
qualification for membership in A.A., a desire to stop drinking ,
1973 AAWS, Inc.; Came to Believe, 30th printing 2004, pg. 50
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TODAY, I'M FREE
This
brought me to the good healthy realization that there
were plenty of
situations left in the world over which I
had no personal power-
that if I was so ready to admit that
to be the case with
alcohol, so I must make the same
admission with respect
to much else. I would have to be
still and know that He,
not I, was God.
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 114
I
am learning to practice acceptance in all circumstances
of my life, so that I
may enjoy peace of mind. At one time
life was a constant
battle because I felt I had to go through
each day fighting
myself, and everyone else. Eventually, this
became a losing battle.
I ended up getting drunk and crying
over my misery. When I
began to let go and let God take over
my life I began to have
peace of mind. Today, I am free. I
do not have to fight
anybody or anything anymore.
Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
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Roots of Reality
We
started upon a personal inventory, Step Four. A business which takes no regular
inventory usually goes broke.
Taking a commercial
inventory is a fact-finding and a fact-facing process. It is an effort to
discover the truth
about the stock in
trade. One object is to disclose damaged or unsalable goods, to get rid of them
promptly and without regret. If the owner of the business is to be successful,
he cannot fool himself about values. We has to do
exactly the same thing with our lives. We had to take stock honestly.
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"Moments of
perception can build into a lifetime of spiritual serenity, as I
have excellent reason to
know. Roots of reality, supplanting the neurotic
underbrush, will hold
fast despite the high winds of the forces which would
destroy us, or which we
would use to destroy ourselves."
1. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, P. 64
2. LETTER, 1949
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"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~
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A.A. Thought for the Day
If you have any doubt,
just ask any of the older members of
the A.A. group, and they
will readily tell you that since they
turned their lives over
to the care of God as they understand
Him, many of their
problems have been banished into the
forgotten yesterdays.
When you allow yourself to be upset over
one thing, you succeed
only in opening the door to the coming
of hundreds of other
upsetting things. Am I allowing myself to
be upset over little
things?
Meditation
for the Day
I would do well not to
think of the
that lies ahead. I am
sure that when I come to that
the waters will part and
I will be given all the power I need
to face and overcome
many difficulties and meet what is in
store for me with
courage. I believe that I will pass through
that
many souls meet in
perfect comradeship. I believe that when
that time comes, I will
be freed of all the dross of material
things and find peace.
Prayer
for the Day
I pray that I may face
the future with courage.
I pray that I may be given strength to face both life and death fearlessly.