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Friendship
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"Carry this message to other alcoholics! You can help when no one else can.
You can secure their confidence when others fail. Remember they are very ill.
Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others,
to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up around you,
to have a host of friends - this is an experience you must not miss.
Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright spot of our lives."
1976AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 89
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Thought to Consider . . .

I keep my sobriety by giving it away.


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C A R E  =  Comforting And Reassuring Each other

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Progress

Step Six: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

"If we ask, God will certainly forgive our derelictions. But in no case does He render us white as snow and keep us that way without our cooperation. That is something we are supposed to be willing to work toward ourselves. He asks only that we try as best we know how to make progress in the building of character."

1952, AAWS, Inc.; Printed 2005; Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg. 65

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A SPIRITUAL KINDERGARTEN

We are only operating a spiritual kindergarten in which people are

enabled to get over drinking and find the grace to go on living to better effect.

AS BILL SEES IT, p. 95

When I came to A.A., I was run down by the bottle and wanted to lose the obsession to drink, but I didn't really know how to do that.  I decided to stick around long enough to find out from the ones who went before me.  All of a sudden I was thinking about God! I was told to get a Higher Power and I had no idea what one looked like.  I found out there are many Higher Powers. I was told to find God, as I understand Him, that there was no doctrine of the Godhead in A.A.  I found what worked for me and then asked that Power to restore me to sanity.  The obsession to drink was removed and one day at a time my life went on, and I learned how to live sober.

Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
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Aspects of Tolerance

All kinds of people have found their way into A.A. Not too long ago, I sat talking in my office with a member who bears the title of Countess. That same night, I went to an A.A. meeting. It was winter, and there was a mild-looking little gent taking the coats. I said, "Who's that?" And somebody answered, "Oh, he's been around for a long time. Everybody likes him. He used to be one of Al Capone's mob." That's how universal A.A. is today.
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We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which
faith can be acquired. All of us, whatever our race, creed, or color, are the
children of a living Creator, with whom we may form a relationship upon
simple and understandable terms as soon as we are willing and honest enough to try.

1. A.A. COMES OF AGE, P. 102
2.ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, P. 28

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"When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing.

God either is or He isn't."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 53~
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A.A. Thought for the Day

Alcohol is our weakness. We suffer from mental conflicts
from which we look for escape by drowning our problems in
drink. We try through drink to push away from the realities
of life. But alcohol does not feed, alcohol does not build,
it only borrows from the future and it ultimately destroys.
We try to drown our feelings in order to escape life's
realities, little realizing or caring that in continued
drinking we are only multiplying our problems. Have I got
control over my unstable emotions?

Meditation for the Day

When I let personal piques and resentments interfere with
what I know to be my proper conduct, I am on the wrong track
and I am undoing all I have built up by doing the right
thing. I must never let personal piques interfere with
living the way I know God wants me to live. When I have no
clear guidance from God, I must go forward quietly along the
path of duty. The attitude of quiet faith will receive its
reward as surely as acting upon God's direct guidance. I must
not weaken my spiritual power by letting personal piques
upset me.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that I may not let myself become too upset.

I pray that I may go quietly along the path I have chosen.