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Change
"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.
"Bill W.,
Thought to Consider . . .
There is no progress without change.
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CHANGE
Choosing
Honesty Allows New Growth Everyday
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Step Three: Made a decision to turn our
will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
"'If I keep on turning my life and my will over to
the care of Something or Somebody else, what will
become of me? I'll look like the hole in the doughnut.' This, of course,
is the process by which instinct and logic always seek to bolster egotism, and so
frustrate spiritual development. The trouble is that this kind of thinking
takes no real account of the facts. And the facts seem to be these: The more we
become willing to depend upon a Higher Power, the more independent we actually
are. Therefore dependence, as A.A. practices it, is really a means to gaining
true independence of the spirit."
(c) 1952, AAWS, Inc.;
Printed 2005; Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg. 36
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REAL
The more we become willing to depend upon a Higher Power,
the more independent we actually are.
TWELVE STEPS
AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 36
I start with a little willingness to
trust God and He causes that willingness to grow. The more willingness I
have, the more trust I gain, and the more trust I gain, the more willingness I
have. My dependence on God grows as my trust in Him grows. Before I
became willing, I depended on myself for all my needs and I was restricted by
my incompleteness. Through my willingness to depend upon my Higher Power,
whom I choose to call God, all my needs are provided for by Someone Who knows
me better than I know myself - even the needs I may not realize, as well as the
ones yet to come. Only Someone Who knows me that
well could bring me to be myself and to help me fill the need in someone else
that only I am meant to fill. There never will be another exactly like
me. And that is real independence.
(c)Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD
SERVICES, INC.(c)
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R.S.V.P. -
Yes or No?
Usually, we do not avoid a place where there is drinking
- if we have a legitimate reason for being there. That includes bars, night
clubs,
dances, receptions, weddings, even plain ordinary parties. You will note that we made an important
qualification. Therefore, ask yourself,
"Have I any
good social, business, or personal reason for going to this place? Or am I
expecting to steal a little vicarious pleasure
from the atmosphere?" Then go or stay away, whichever
seems better. But be sure you are on solid spiritual ground before you start
and
that your motive in going is thoroughly good. Do not think of
what you will get out of the occasion. Think of what you can bring to it.
If you are shaky, you had better work with another
alcoholic instead!
ALCOHOLICS
ANONYMOUS, pp. 101-102
Copyright(R)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~
*~*~*~*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*~*~*~*
A.A. Thought
for the Day
When we alcoholics first come
into A.A. and we face the fact that we must spend the rest of our life without
liquor, it often seems like an impossibility to us. So A.A. tells us to forget
about the future and take it one day at a time. All we really have is now. We
have no past time and no future time. As the saying goes: "Yesterday is
gone, forget it; tomorrow never comes, don't worry; today is here, get
busy." All we have is the present. The past is gone forever and the future
never comes. When tomorrow gets Here, it will be
today. Am I living one day at a time?
Meditation for the Day
Persistence is necessary if you are to advance in spiritual things. By persistent
prayer, persistent, firm, and simple trust, you achieve the treasures of the
spirit. By persistent practice, you can eventually obtain joy, peace,
assurance, security, health, happiness, and serenity. Nothing is too great, in
the spiritual realm, for you to obtain, if you persistently prepare yourself
for it.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may persistently carry out my spiritual exercises every
day.
I pray that I may strive for peace and serenity.