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Amends
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"This is a very large
order.
It is a task which we may perform with
increasing skill,
but we never really finish.
Learning how to live in the greatest
peace, partnership,
and brotherhood with all men and women,
of whatever description,
is a moving and fascinating adventure.
Every AA has found that he can make
little headway
in this new adventure of living until
he first backtracks
and really makes an accurate and
unsparing survey
of the human wreckage he has left in
his wake."
c.1952AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 77
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Thought to Consider . . .
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes
and to make amends for them.
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T I M E = Things I Must Earn
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Right Acceptance
From "More than Comfort:"
"When I am feeling depressed, I repeat to myself
statements
such as these: 'Pain is the touchstone of progress.' . . .
'Fear no
evil.' . . . 'This, too, will pass.' . . . 'This experience
can be turned to benefit.'
"These fragments of prayer bring far more than mere
comfort.
They keep me on the track of right acceptance; they break up
my
compulsive themes of guilt, depression, rebellion, and pride;
and
sometimes they endow me with the courage to change the things
I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
c. 1967, As Bill Sees It, page 148
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TRUE TOLERANCE
Finally, we begin to see that all people,
including ourselves, are to some extent emotionally ill as well as frequently
wrong, and then we approach true tolerance and see what real love for our
fellows actually means.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 92
The thought occurred to me that all people are
emotionally ill to some extent. How could we not be? Who among us
is spiritually perfect? Who among us is physically perfect? How could
any of us be emotionally perfect? Therefore, what else are we to do but
bear with one another and treat each other as we would be treated in similar
circumstances? That is what love really is.
©Copyright
1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.©
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Praying Rightly
We thought we had been deeply serious
about religious practices. However, upon honest appraisal we found that we had been
most superficial. Or sometimes, going to extremes, we had wallowed in
emotionalism and had also mistaken this for true religious feeling. In both
cases, we had been asking something for nothing. We had not prayed rightly. We had always said,
"Grant me my wishes," instead of "Thy will be done." The
love of God and man we understood not at all. Therefore we remained
self-deceived, and so incapable of receiving enough grace to restore us to
sanity.
TWELVE AND TWELVE, p. 32
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"We have seen the truth demonstrated again
and again: 'Once an
alcoholic, always an alcoholic.'
Commencing to drink after a period
of sobriety, we are in a short time as
bad as ever."
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More About Alcoholism, pg.
33
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A.A. Thought for the Day
Second, I am content to face the rest
of my life without alcohol. I have made the great decision once and for all. I have
surrendered as gracefully as possible to the inevitable. I hope I have no more
reservations. I hope that nothing can happen to me now that would justify my
taking a drink. No death of a dear one. No great calamity in any area of my
life should justify me in drinking. Even if I were on some desert isle, far
from the rest of the world, but not far from God, should I ever feel it right
to drink. For me, alcohol is out-period. I will always be safe unless I take
that first drink. Am I fully resigned to this fact?
Meditation for the Day
Day by day we should slowly build up an
unshakable faith in a Higher Power and in that Power's ability to give us all
the help we need. By having these quiet times each morning, we start each day
with a renewing of our faith, until it becomes almost a part of us and is a
strong habit. We should keep furnishing the quiet places of our souls with all
the furniture of faith. We should try to fill our thoughts each day with all
that is harmonious and good, beautiful and enduring.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may build a house in my
soul for the spirit of God to dwell in. I pray that I may come at last to an
unshakable faith.