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"'As
psychiatrists have often observed, defiance is the outstanding characteristic of
many an alcoholic.
When we encountered AA, the fallacy of our defiance
was revealed. At no time had we asked what God's will was for
us;
instead we had been telling Him what it ought to be. No man, we saw, could
believe in God and defy Him, too.
Belief meant reliance, not defiance. In AA we saw the
fruits of this belief:
men and women spared from alcohol's final catastrophe.'"
Twelve
Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 31
Thought to Consider . . .
While it isn't
always easy, if I keep it simple, it works.
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SIT
Stay In Today
*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*
Beginning
From "Tightrope":
"My sponsor was a living damper on
my intolerance. But even more, he told me that it would be all right for me to
doubt God, that A.A. was not a religious program and, to
belong, I did not have to adhere to any set of beliefs. "He suggested that for me a good
starting point would simply be recognition of the fact that I had failed in
running the world--in short, acceptance of the fact that I was not God. He also
suggested that I might try occasionally to act as if I believed. Somewhere I
had heard that it is easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking than to
think yourself into a new way of acting, and this made sense in the context of
'acting as if.'"
2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth Edition; Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 366
*~*~*~*~*^Daily Reflections^*~*~*~*~*
A LIST OF BLESSINGS
One exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory
of my blessings. . . .
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 37
What did I have to be grateful for? I shut myself up
and started listing the blessings for which I was in no way responsible,
beginning with having been born of sound mind and body. I went through
seventy-four years of living right up to the present moment. The list ran
to two pages, and took two hours to compile; I included health, family, money,
A.A. -- the whole gamut.
Every day in my prayers,
I ask God to help me remember my list, and to be grateful for it throughout the
day. When I remember my gratitude list, it's very hard to conclude that
God is picking on me.
Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
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"Restore Us to Sanity"
Few indeed are the practicing alcoholics who have any idea
how irrational they are, or, seeing their irrationality,
can bear to face it.
For example, some will be willing to term themselves "problem
drinkers," but cannot endure
the suggestion that
they are in fact mentally ill. They are abetted in this blindness by a world
which does not
understand the
difference between sane drinking and alcoholism. "Sanity" is defined
as "soundness of mind." Yet no
alcoholic, soberly
analyzing his destructive behavior, whether the destruction fell on the
dining-room furniture or his
own moral
fiber, can claim "soundness of mind" for himself.
TWELVE AND TWELVE, PP. 32-33
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"Above everything, we alcoholics must be
rid of this selfishness. We
must, or it kill us! God makes that possible. And there often seems
no way of entirely
getting rid of self without His aid. Many of us
had moral and
philosophical convictions galore, but we could not live
up to them even though
we would have liked to."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It
Works, pg. 62~
*~*~*~*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*~*~*~*
A.A. Thought for the Day
One of the finest things
about A.A. is the sharing. Sharing is
a wonderful thing
because the more you share the more you have.
In our old drinking
days, we didn't do much sharing. We used to
keep things to
ourselves, partly because we were ashamed, but
mostly because we were
selfish. And we were very lonely because
we didn't share. When we
came into A.A., the first thing we found
was sharing. We heard
other alcoholics frankly sharing their
experiences with
hospitals, jails, and all the usual mess that
goes with drinking. Am I
sharing.?
Meditation for the Day
Character is developed
by the daily discipline of duties done.
Be obedient to the
heavenly vision and take the straight way. Do
not fall into the error
of calling "Lord, Lord," and doing not
the things that should
be done. You need a life of prayer and
meditation, but you must
still do your work in the busy ways of
life. The busy person is
wise to rest and wait patiently for
God's guidance. If you
are obedient to the heavenly vision, you
can be at peace.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may be obedient
to the heavenly vision.
I pray if I fall, I will pick myself up and go on.