~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~
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Sponsor
"If
we are fooling ourselves, a
competent adviser can see this quickly. And, as he skillfully guides us away
from our fantasies,
we are surprised to find
that we have few of
the usual urges to defend ourselves against unpleasant truths. In
no other way can fear, pride, and ignorance be so readily melted. After
a time, we realize that we are standing firm on a brand-new foundation for
integrity, and
we gratefully credit our sponsors, whose advice pointed the way."
Bill W.,
As Bill Sees It, p. 248
Sitting in meetings for Months will not Help.
You don't change from Listening,
you change from Doing!!!
Thought to Consider . . .
A
recovering alcoholic without a sponsor is much like leaving Dracula in charge of the blood
bank.
*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
C A
R D S =
Call
your sponsor,
Ask for help from your
Higher Power,
Read the Big Book,
Do the Twelve Steps,
Stay active in your
group.
*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*
Roles
From "Action and Patience":
"I heard that we can't keep what we have unless we give it away. And so I found a woman someone a little newer than I was and I shared with her what you had shared with me. Looking back on it, I doubt that I helped this woman very much, but I helped myself beyond measure. I stayed sober, day by day, through sharing my experience, strength, and hope with her, through putting action into the A.A. program while, at the same time, waiting for her, not forcing my action on her. This was patience supporting the action, though I didn't call it patience at the time; the word was not a part of my emotional vocabulary."
1973 AAWS,
Inc.; Came to Believe, 30th printing 2004, pg. 42
*~*~*~*~*^Daily Reflections^*~*~*~*~*
FREEDOM TO BE ME
If
we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed
before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a
new happiness.
ALCOHOLICS
ANONYMOUS, p. 83
My
first true freedom is the freedom not to have to take a drink today. If I
truly want it, I will work the Twelve Steps and the happiness of this freedom
will come to me through the Steps -- sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.
Other freedoms will follow, and inventorying them is a new happiness. I
had a new freedom today, the freedom to be me. I have the freedom to be
the best me I have ever been.
Copyright
1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
*~*~*~*~*^As Bill Sees It^*~*~*~*~*
Two Roads for the Oldtimer
The founders of many groups ultimately divide into two classes
known in
A.A. slang as
"elder statesmen" and "bleeding deacons."
The elder statesman sees
the wisdom of the group's decision to run itself and
holds no resentment over
his reduced status. His
judgment, fortified by considerable experience, is sound; he is willing to sit
quietly
on the side lines
patiently awaiting developments.
The bleeding deacon is
just as surely convinced that the group cannot get along without him. He
constantly connives for
re-election to office and continues to be consumed with self-pity. Nearly every
oldtimer
in our Society has
gone through this process in some degree. Happily, most of them survive and
live to become
elder statesmen. They become
the real and permanent leadership of A.A.
TWELVE AND TWELVE, p. 135
~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
"The
minute we put our work on a service plane, the alcoholic commences to rely upon our assistance
rather than upon God. He clamors for this or that, claiming he cannot master
alcohol until his
material needs are cared for. Nonsense,
some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job, wife or no wife, we simply do not stop drinking
so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on
God."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Working With
Others, pg. 98~
*~*~*~*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*~*~*~*
A.A.
Thought for the Day
We're
in A.A. for two main reasons: to keep sober ourselves and to help others to
keep sober. It's a well known fact that helping others is a big part of keeping
sober yourself It's also been proved that it's very
hard to keep sober all by yourself. A lot of people have tried it and failed.
They come to a few A.A. meetings and then stay sober alone for a few months,
but usually they eventually get drunk. Do I know that I can't stay sober
successfully alone?
Meditation for the Day
Look by faith into that
place beyond space or time where God dwells and whence you came and to which
you shall eventually return. "Look unto Him and be saved." To look
beyond material things is within the power of everyone's imagination. Faith's look
saves you from despair. Faith's look saves you from worry and care. Faith's look
brings a peace beyond all understanding. Faith's look brings you all the
strength you need. Faith's look gives you a new and vital power and a wonderful
peace and serenity.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may have
faith's look.
I pray that by faith I
may look beyond the now to eternal life.