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Martyrdom
"Self-pity
is one of the most unhappy and consuming
defects that we know. It
is a bar to all spiritual progress
and can cut off all
effective communication with
our fellows because
of its inordinate demands
for attention and
sympathy. It
is a maudlin form of martyrdom, which we can ill afford."
Bill W., Letter, 1966
As Bill Sees It, p. 238
Thought to Consider . . .
I
can't have a better tomorrow
if I am thinking about
yesterday all the time.
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PEACE
Praying Energetically Always Creates Ease
*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*
Real
From "Because I'm an Alcoholic":
"A.A. is my home now, and it is everywhere. I go to meetings when I travel here or in foreign countries, and the people are family I can know because of what we share. As I write this, in my twenty-eighth year of sobriety, I am amazed to look back and remember the woman or child. I was then, to see how far I've come out of that abyss. Alcoholics Anonymous has enabled me to move from fantasies about what I might do with my life into living it, one day at a time."
2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth Edition; Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 346
*~*~*~*~*^Daily Reflections^*~*~*~*~*
WE FORGIVE
Often
it was while working on this Step with our sponsors or spiritual advisers that
we first felt truly able to forgive others, no matter how deeply we felt they
had wronged us. Our moral inventory had persuaded us that all-round
forgiveness was desirable, but it was only when we resolutely tackled Step Five
that we inwardly knew we'd be able to receive forgiveness and give it, too.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE
TRADITIONS, p. 58
What
a great feeling forgiveness is! What a revelation about my emotional,
psychological and spiritual nature. All it takes is willingness to
forgive; God will do the rest.
Copyright
1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
*~*~*~*~*^As Bill Sees It^*~*~*~*~*
Start by Forgiving
The moment we ponder a twisted or broken relationship with another
person, our emotions go on the defensive. To escape looking at the wrongs we
have done another, we resentfully focus on the wrong he has done us. Triumphantly
we seize upon his slightest misbehavior as the perfect excuse for minimizing or
forgetting our own.
Right here we need to
fetch ourselves up sharply. Let's remember that alcoholics are not the only
ones bedeviled by sick emotions. In many instances we are really dealing with
fellow sufferers, people whose woes we have increased.
If we are about to ask
forgiveness for ourselves, why shouldn't we start out by forgiving them, one
and all?
TWELVE AND TWELVE, p. 78
Copyright 1967
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
"Faith without works was dead, he said. And how appallingly
true for
the alcoholic! For if an
alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his
spiritual life through
work and self-sacrifice for others, he could
not survive the certain
trials and low spots ahead. If he did not
work, he would surely
drink again, and if he drank, he would surely
die. Then faith would be
dead indeed. With us it is just like that."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill's Story, pg. 14~
*~*~*~*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*~*~*
A.A. Thought for the Day
In the story of the Good
Samaritan, the wayfarer fell among robbers and was left lying in the gutter,
half dead. And a priest and a Levite both passed by on the other side of the
road. But the Good Samaritan was moved with compassion and came to him and
bound up his wounds and brought him to an inn and took care of him. Do I treat
another alcoholic like the priest and the Levite or like the Good Samaritan?
Meditation for the Day
Never weary in prayer.
When one day you see how unexpectedly your prayer has been answered, then you
will deeply regret that you have prayed so little. Prayer changes things for
you. Practice praying until your trust in God has become strong. And then pray on, because it has become so much a habit that you need
it daily. Keep praying until prayer seems to become communion with God. That is
the note on which true times of prayer should end.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may form
the habit of daily prayer.
I pray that I may find the strength I need, as a result of this communion