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Spiritual
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"The spiritual life is not a theory. We
have to live it. Unless
one's family expresses a desire to live upon
spiritual principles we think we ought not to urge them. We should not talk incessantly to them about
spiritual matters. They
will change in time. Our
behavior will convince them more than our words.
We must remember that ten or twenty
years of drunkenness
would make a skeptic out of anyone."
Reprinted
from Alcoholics Anonymous, Page 83, with permission of A.A. World Services,
Inc.
Thought to Consider . . .
Attitudes are
contagious. Is yours worth catching?
*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
P A C E =Positive Attitudes Change Everything
*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*
Unchangeable
From "More About
Alcoholism":
"Physicians who
are familiar with alcoholism agree there is no such thing as making a normal
drinker out of an alcoholic. Science may one day accomplish this, but it hasn't
done so yet.
"Despite all we
can say, many who are real alcoholics are not going to believe they are in that
class. By every form of self-deception and experimentation, they will try to
prove themselves exceptions to the rule, therefore nonalcoholic. If anyone who
is showing inability to control his drinking can do the right-about-face and
drink like a gentlemen, our hats are off to him. Heavens knows, we have tried
hard enough and long enough to drink like other people!"
© 2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth
Edition; Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 31
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LOOKING OUTWARD
We ask especially for freedom from self-will,
and are careful to make no requests for ourselves only. We may ask for
ourselves, however, if others will be helped. We are careful never to
pray for our own selfish ends.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 87
As an active alcoholic, I allowed selfishness to run
rampant in my life. I was so attached to my drinking and other selfish
habits that people and moral principles came second. Now, when I pray for
the good of others rather than my "own selfish ends," I practice a
discipline in letting go of selfish attachments, caring for my fellows and
preparing for the day when I will be required to let go of all earthly
attachments.
©Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS
ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.©
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Vision Beyond Today
Vision
is, I think, the ability to make good estimates, both for the immediate and for
the more distant future. Some might feel this sort of striving to be heresy
against "One day at a time." But that valuable
principle really refers to our mental and emotional lives and means chiefly
that we are not foolishly to repine over the past nor wishfully to daydream
about the future.
As individuals and as a fellowship, we
shall surely suffer if we cast the whole job of planning for tomorrow onto a
fatuous idea of providence. God's real providence has endowed us human beings
with a considerable capability for foresight, and He
evidently expects us to use it. Of course, we shall often miscalculate the
future in whole or in part, but that is better than to refuse to think at all.
TWELVE
CONCEPTS, p. 41
*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
"Practical experience shows that nothing will so much
insure immunity
from drinking as intensive work with
other alcoholics."
~Alcoholics
Anonymous, 4th Edition, Working With Others, pg. 89~
*~*~*~*^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*~*~*~*
A.A. Thought for the Day
Who am I to judge other people? Have I
proved by my great success in life that I know all the answers? Exactly the opposite. Until I came into A.A., my life could
be called a failure. I made all the mistakes one could make. I took all the
wrong roads there were to take' On the basis of my record, am I a fit person to
be a judge of other people? Hardly. In
A.A. I have learned not to judge people. I am so often wrong. Let the
results of what they do judge them. It's not up to me, Am I less harsh in my
judgment of people?
Meditation for the Day
In our time of meditation, we again
seem to hear: "Come unto me, all ye that are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Again and again we
seem to hear God saying this to us. "Come unto me" for the solution
of every problem, for the overcoming of every temptation, for the calming of
every fear, for all our needs, physical, mental, or spiritual, but mostly,
"come unto me" for the strength we need to live with peace of mind
and the power to be useful and effective.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may go to God today for
those things that I need to help me live.
I pray that I may find real peace of mind.