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Conflict
"My
conflicts went right on mounting because
I was simply loaded with excuses and refusals.
When these troubles had
finally exhausted me enough, there was yet another escape.
I would commence to
wallow in the bog of guilt.
Here pride and
rebellion would give way to depression.
My main theme always
was, 'How god-awful I am.'
There was never a
decent regret for the harms I had done,
nor was there any
serious thought of making such restitution as I could. The
idea of asking God's forgiveness,
let alone any
forgiveness of myself, never
occurred to me. My really big liability - spiritual
pride and arrogance-
was not examined at all. I
had shut out the light by which I might have seen it."
Bill W., The Language of the Heart, p.
257-8
Thought to Consider . . .
Simply
asking for help seems to be a help in itself.
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HOW
Honesty, Open-mindedness, Willingness: that's how we
do it
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Disease
From "The Three Legacies of Alcoholics Anonymous":
"We know of course that the alcoholic is a sick person. That is a very simple phrase. It is today a phrase that is widely and generally accepted, and yet you and I know that it was not so long ago that the alcoholic was regarded as a nuisance, a pest, a person who could snap out of it if he really wanted to. He was regarded as a spoiled brat and a no-good. Today we know that he is an individual who is sick, and we know that he is sick in an area of which our understanding is perhaps the least of any area in medicine, namely, illness of the emotions. - Dr. W.W. Bauer, 1955"
(c) 2001 AAWS, Inc.; Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pg. 239
*~*~*~*~*^Daily Reflections^*~*~*~*~*
KNOW GOD; KNOW PEACE
It
is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness.
. . . But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a
spiritual experience, this business of resentment is infinitely grave.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.age 66
Know
God;
Know
peace.
No God;
No peace.
Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
*~*~*~*~*^As Bill Sees It^*~*~*~*~*
A.A.'s
Within A.A., I suppose, we shall always quarrel a
good bit. Mostly, I think, about how to do the greatest
good for the greatest number
of drunks. We shall have our childish spats and snits over small questions of
money management and who is
going to run our groups for the next six months. Any bunch of growing children
(and that is what we
are ) would hardly be in character if they did less.
These
are the growing pains of infancy, and we actually thrive on them. Surmounting
such problems,
in A.A.'s rather
rugged school of life, is a healthy exercise.
A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 233
Copyright 1967 Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
"Much
to our relief, we discovered we did not need to consider
another's
conception of God. Our own conception, however inadequate,
was
sufficient to make the approach and to effect a contact with
Him.
As soon as we admitted the possible existence of a Creative
Intelligence,
a Spirit of the Universe underlying the totality of
things,
we began to be possessed of a new sense of power and
direction,
provided we took other simple steps."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 46~
*~*~*~*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*~*~*
A.A. Thought for the Day
In A.A.
we find a new strength and peace from the realization that there must be a
Power greater than ourselves that is running the universe and that is on our
side when we live a good life. So the A.A. program really never ends. You begin
by overcoming drink and you go on from there to many new opportunities for
happiness and usefulness. Am I really enjoying the full benefits of A.A.?
Meditation
for the Day
"Seek
ye first the
Prayer for
the Day
I pray
that I may put much effort into acquiring spiritual things.
I pray that I may not expect good things until I am right spiritually.