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Choices
"During
the day, we can pause where
situations must be met and decisions made,
and renew the simple
request: 'Thy
will, not mine, be done.'
If at these points our
emotional disturbance happens
to be great,
we will more surely keep
our balance, provided
we remember,
and repeat to ourselves,
a particular prayer or
phrase that has appealed to us
in our reading or
meditation. Just
saying it over and over will often enable us
to return to the surest
help of all-- our
search for God's will, not our own, in the moment of stress."
Bill W., Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pp. 102-3
As Bill Sees It, p. 78
Thought to Consider . . .
"As
we go through the day we pause,
when agitated or
doubtful,
and ask for the right
thought or action."
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 87
*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
FEAR
False Evidence Appearing Real
*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*
Conference
From
"The Three Legacies of Alcoholics Anonymous":
In the late 1940s
"most of the nonalcoholics on the Board at the
time had been institutional [non-profit organization] men. Bernard Smith on the
other hand was a businessman and lawyer. From the time he had joined the Board,
three years earlier, he had always favored corporate management for the A.A.
office and an elected conference to sit with the Trustees as the final plan of
service structure for Alcoholics Anonymous. ..."
Chairman Leonard
Harrison appointed "Bernard Smith Chairman of the Trustees' Committee on
the proposed Conference ... [despite] their differences of opinion. ... "Bernard Smith has
a remarkable faculty for persuasion and negotiation. Moreover, his ideas about
a conference had already taken a deeper hold than any of us realized. ... [H]e
took up the task of convincing the Trustees' committee on the Conference. ...
He put this question to the committee: Shall we set up this Conference of
delegates, or shall we forget about it? To my astonishment the committee
unanimously said, 'Let's give the Conference a try.' It seemed like a
miracle."
(c) 2001
AAWS, Inc.; Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pg. 212
*~*~*~*~*^Daily Reflections^*~*~*~*~*
HEALING HEART AND MIND
Admitted
to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our
wrongs.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE
TRADITIONS, p. 55
Since
it is true that God comes to me through people, I can see that by keeping
people at a distance I also keep God at a distance. God is nearer to me
than I think and I can experience Him by loving people and allowing people to
love me. But I can neither love nor be loved if I allow my secrets to get
in the way.
It's the side of myself that I refuse to look at that rules me. I must
be willing to look at the dark side in order to heal my mind and heart because
that is the road to freedom. I must walk into darkness to find the light
and walk into fear to find peace.
By revealing my secrets
-- and thereby ridding myself of guilt -- I can actually change my thinking; by
altering my thinking, I can change myself. My thoughts create my future.
What I will be tomorrow is determined by what I think today.
(c)Copyright
1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.(c)
*~*~*~*~*^As Bill Sees It^*~*~*~*~*
We Are Not Fighting
We
have ceased fighting anything or anyone--even alcohol. For by this time sanity
has returned. We can now react sanely and normally, and we find that this has
happened almost automatically. We see that this new attitude toward liquor is
really a gift of God. That is
the miracle of it. We are not fighting it, neither are
we avoiding temptation. We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has
been removed. It does not exist for us. We are neither cocky nor are we afraid.
That is how we react--so
long as we keep in fit spiritual condition.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, PP. 84-85
*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
"If there be divorce or separation, there should be no
undue haste
for the couple to get
together. The man should be sure of his
recovery. The wife
should fully understand his new way of life. If
their old relationship
is to be resumed it must be on a better basis,
since the former did not
work. This means a new attitude and spirit
all around. Sometimes it
is to the best interests of all concerned
that a
couple remain apart. Obviously, no rule can be laid down.
Let the alcoholic
continue his program day by day. When the time for
living together has
come, it will be apparent to both parties."
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Working With Others, Page 99
*~*~*~*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*~*~*~*
A.A. Thought for the Day
The A.A. program is one of charity because the real meaning of
the word charity is to care enough about other people to really want to help
them. To get the full benefit of the program, we must try to help other
alcoholics. We may try to help somebody and think we have failed, but the seed
we have planted may bear fruit some time. We never know the results even a word
of ours might have. But the main thing is to have charity for others, a real
desire to help them, whether we succeed or not. Do I have real charity?
Meditation for the Day
All material things, the universe, the world,
even our bodies, may be Eternal Thought expressed in time and space. The more
the physicists and astronomers reduce matter, the more it becomes a
mathematical formula, which is thought. In the final analysis, matter is
thought. When Eternal Thought expresses itself within the framework of space
and time, it becomes matter. Our thoughts, within the box of space and time,
cannot know anything firsthand, except material things. But we can deduce that
outside the box of space and time is Eternal Thought, which we can call God.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may be a true expression of Eternal Thought.
I pray that God's thoughts may work through my thoughts