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Lessons
"I find the willingness to give thanks by
contemplating the lessons learned from past suffering—lessons
which have led to blessings I now enjoy. I can remember how
the agonies of alcoholism, the pain of rebellion
and thwarted pride, have often led me to God's grace, and so to a new freedom.
"Bill W.,
Thought to Consider . . .
Remember that we deal with alcohol --
cunning, baffling, powerful!
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TRUST
Try Relying Upon The Steps
*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*
Self-sufficient
From "The Three
Legacies of Alcoholics Anonymous":
"At the Foundation, meanwhile, we had
taken a significant action that was incorporated in these Traditions. In 1945
we wrote [our early supporters] Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the 1940
dinner guests that we would no longer need their financial help. The book
royalties could now look after Dr. Bob and me; group contributions could pay
the general office expenses. If these were insufficient, the reserve
accumulated out of literature sales could meet the deficit. This meant that we
had finally declared for full self-support. Since that time A.A.'s
Board of Trustees has steadfastly refused outside contributions."
(c) 2001 AAWS, Inc.;
Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pgs. 203-04
*~*~*~*~*^Daily Reflections^*~*~*~*~*
THE IDEA OF FAITH
Do not let any
prejudice you may have against spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking
yourself what they mean to you.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 47
The idea of
faith is a very large chunk to swallow when fear, doubt and anger abound in and
around me. Sometimes just the idea of doing something different,
something I am not accustomed to doing, can eventually become an act of faith
if I do it regularly, and do it without debating whether it's the right thing
to do. When a bad day comes along and everything is going wrong, a
meeting or a talk with another drunk often distracts me just enough to persuade
me that everything is not quite as impossible, as overwhelming as I had
thought. In the same way, going to a meeting or talking to a fellow alcoholic
are acts of faith; I believe I'm arresting my disease. These are ways I
slowly move toward faith in a Higher Power.
(c)Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS
ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.(c)
*~*~*~*~*^As Bill Sees It^*~*~*~*~*
Growth by the Tenth Step
In the years
ahead A.A. will, of course, make mistakes. Experience has taught us that we
need have no fear of doing this, providing that we always remain willing to
admit our faults and to correct them promptly. Our growth as individuals has
depended upon this healthy process of trial and error. So will our growth as a
fellowship.
Let us always remember that any society
of men and women that cannot freely correct its own faults must surely fall
into decay if not into collapse. Such is the universal penalty for the failure
to go on growing. Just as each A.A. must continue to take his moral inventory
and act upon it, so must our whole Society if we are to survive and if we are
to serve usefully and well.
A.A.
COMES OF AGE, p. 231
Copyright(R)1967 Alcoholics Anonymous
World Services, Inc
*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
We
constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show,
humbly saying to ourselves many times
each day "Thy will be done." We
are then in much less danger of excitement,
fear, anger, worry, self-
pity, or foolish decisions. We become
much more efficient. We do
not tire so easily, for we are not
burning up energy foolishly as we
did when we were trying to arrange life
to suit ourselves."
~Alcoholics
Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 87~
*~*~*~*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*~*~*~*
A.A. Thought for the Day
In A.A.
we must surrender, give up, admit that we're helpless. We surrender our lives to
God and ask Him for help. When He knows that we're ready, He gives us by His
grace the free gift of sobriety. And we can't take any credit for having
stopped drinking, because we didn't do it by our own willpower. There's no
place for pride or boasting. We can only be grateful to God for doing for us
what we could never do for ourselves. Do I believe that God has made me a free
gift of the strength to stay sober?
Meditation
for the Day
I must work for God, with God, and
through God's help. By helping to bring about a true fellowship of human
beings, I am working for God. I am also working with God because this is the
way God works, and He is with me when I am doing such work. I cannot do good
work, however, without God's help. in the final
analysis, it is through the grace of God that any real change in human
personality takes place. I have to rely on God's power, and anything I
accomplish is through His help.
Prayer for
the Day
I pray that I may work for God and with
God.
I pray that I may be used to change human personalities through God's help