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Possibilities
"How shall we come to terms with seeming
failure or success? Can we now adjust to either without despair or pride? Can
we accept poverty, sickness, loneliness, and bereavement with courage and
serenity? The AA answer to these questions about living is 'Yes, all of these
things are possible.'"
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 112
Thought to Consider . . .
It works - it
really does.
Alcoholics
Anonymous, p. 88
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EGO
Easing
God Out
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Tests
Step Nine: Made direct
amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them
or others.
"When
World War II broke out, this spiritual
principle had its first major test. A.A.’s [sic]
entered the services
and were scattered all over the world. Would they be able to take
discipline, stand up under fire, and endure the monotony and misery of war?
Would the kind of dependence they had learned in A.A. carry them through? Well,
it did. They had even fewer alcoholic lapses or emotional binges than A.A.’s safe at home did. They were just as capable of
endurance and valor as any other soldiers."
© 1952, AAWS, Inc.;
Printed 2005; Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg. 38
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A.A.'s FREEDOMS
We trust that we already know what our several freedoms truly
are; that no future generation of AA's will ever feel compelled to limit
them. Our AA freedoms create the soil in which genuine love can
grow. . . .
LANGUAGE
OF THE HEART, p. 303
I craved
freedom. First, freedom to drink; later, freedom from
drink. The A.A. program of recovery rests on a foundation of free
choice. There are no mandates, laws or commandments. A.A.'s spiritual program, as outlined in the Twelve Steps,
and by which I am offered even greater freedoms, is only suggested. I can
take it or leave it. Sponsorship is offered, not forced, and I come and
go as I will. It is these and other freedoms that allow me to recapture
the dignity that was crushed by the burden of drink, and which is so dearly
needed to support an enduring sobriety.
©Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS
ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.©
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Room for Improvement
WE
have come to believe that A.A.'s recovery Steps and
Traditions represent the approximate truths which we need for our particular
purpose. The more we practice them, the more we like them. So there is little
doubt that A.A. principles will continue to be advocated in the form they stand
now.
If our basics are so firmly fixed as
all this, then what is there left to change or to improve?
The answer will immediately occur to
us. While we need not alter our truths, we can surely improve their application
to ourselves, to A.A. as a whole, and to our relation with the world around us.
We can constantly step up the practice of "these principles in all our
affairs."
GRAPEVINE,
FEBRUARY 1961
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"We needed to ask ourselves but one short question. 'Do I
now
believe, or am I even willing to
believe, that there is a Power
greater than myself?' As soon as a man can
say that he does believe,
or is willing to believe, we
emphatically assure him that he is on
his way. It has been repeatedly proven
among us that upon this
simple cornerstone a wonderfully
effective spiritual structure can be built."
Alcoholics
Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 47
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A.A. Thought for the Day
You get the power to overcome drinking
through the fellowship of other alcoholics who have found the way out. You get
power by honestly sharing your past experience by a personal witness. You get
power by coming to believe in a Higher Power, the Divine Principle in the
universe which can help you. You get power by working with other alcoholics. In
these four ways, thousands of alcoholics have found all the power they needed
to overcome drinking. Am I ready and willing to accept this power and work for
it?
Meditation for the Day
The power of God's spirit is the
greatest power in the universe. Our conquest of each other, the great kings and
conquerors, the conquest of wealth, the leaders of the money society, all
amount to very little in the end. But one who conquers oneself is greater than
one who conquers a city. Material things have no permanence. But God's spirit
is eternal. Everything really worthwhile in the world is the result of the
power of God's spirit.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may open myself to the
power of God's spirit.
I pray that my relationships with others may be improved by this spirit.