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Self-will
"No matter how one wishes to try, exactly
how can he turn his own will and his own life over to the care of whatever God
he thinks there is? A beginning, even the smallest, is all that is needed. Once
we have placed the key of willingness in the lock and have the door ever so
slightly open, we find that we can always open it some more. Though self-will
may slam it shut again, as it frequently does, it will always respond the
moment we again pick up the key of willingness.
"Twelve
Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 35As
Bill Sees It, p. 35
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EDI
not DIE Easy Does It not Does It Easy
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Explanation
From "More about Alcoholism":
"We learned we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed. "We alcoholics are men and women who have lost the ability to control our drinking. We know that no real alcoholic ever recovers control. All of us felt at times that we were regaining control, but such intervals usually brief were inevitably followed by still less control, which led in time to pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization."
2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth Edition; Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 30
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A LIFELONG TASK
"But just how, in these circumstances, does a fellow 'take it
easy?' That's what I want to know."
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 26
I was never
known for my patience. How many times have I asked, "Why should I
wait, when I can have it all right now?" Indeed, when I was first presented
the Twelve Steps, I was like the proverbial "kid in a candy store." I
couldn't wait to get to Step Twelve; it was surely
just a few months' work, or so I thought! I realize now that living the
Twelve Steps of A.A. is a lifelong undertaking.
Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS
ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
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Search for Motives
Some of us clung to the claim that when
drinking we never hurt anybody but ourselves. Our families didn't suffer, because
we always paid the bills and seldom drank at home. Our business associates
didn't suffer, because we were usually on the job. Our reputations didn't
suffer, because we were certain few knew of our drinking. Those who did would
sometimes assure us that, after all, a lively bender was only a good man's
fault. What real harm, therefore, had we done? No more, surely, than we could
easily mend with a few casual apologies.This attitude, of course, is the end result of purposeful
forgetting. It is an attitude which can be changed only by a deep and honest
search of our motives and actions.
TWELVE
AND TWELVE, p. 79
Copyright 1967 Alcoholics Anonymous
World Services, Inc.
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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
Sometimes
we try too hard to get this program. It is better to relax and accept it. It
will be given to us, with no effort on our part, if we stop trying too hard to
get it. Sobriety can be a free gift of God, which He gives us by His grace when
He knows we are ready for it. But we have to be ready. Then we must relax, take
it easy, and accept the gift with gratitude and humility. We must put ourselves
in God's hands. We must say to God: "Here am I and here are all my
troubles. I've made a mess of things and can't do anything about it. You take
me and all my troubles and do anything you want with me." Do I believe
that the grace of God can do for me what I could never do for myself?
Meditation
for the Day
Fear is
the curse of the world. Many are our fears. Fear is everywhere. I must fight
fear as I would a plague. I must turn it out of my life. There is no room for
fear in the heart in which God dwells. Fear cannot exist where true love is or
where faith abides. So I must have no fear. Fear is evil, but "perfect
love casteth out all fear." Fear destroys hope
and hope is necessary for all of humanity.
Prayer for
the Day
I pray
that I may have no fear.
I pray that I may cast all fear out of my life