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Touchstones
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"All AA progress can be reckoned in terms
of just two words:
humility and responsibility.
Our whole spiritual development can be accurately
measured by our degree of adherence to
these
magnificent standards.
Ever deepening humility,
accompanied by an ever greater
willingness
to accept and act upon clear-cut
obligations --
these are truly our touchstones
for all growth in the life of the
spirit.
They hold up to us the very essence
of right being and right doing.
It is by them that we are enabled to
find and to do God's will."
Bill
W., Talk, 1965
c.1967AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p.
271
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Thought to Consider . . .
The solution is simple.
The solution is spiritual.
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S O B E R = Simply Observe Bill's Exemplary Recovery
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Variety
From "We Agnostics":
"In our personal stories you will find a wide variation in the way each teller approaches and conceives of the Power which is greater than himself. Whether we agree with a particular approach or conception seems to make little difference. Experience has taught us that these are matters about which, for our purpose, we need not be worried. They are questions for each individual to settle for himself."
© 2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth Edition; Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 50
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OUR SURVIVAL
Since recovery from alcoholism is life
itself to us, it is imperative that we preserve in full strength our means of
survival.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 177
The honesty expressed by the members of
A.A. in meetings has the power to open my mind. Nothing can block the flow of
energy that honesty carries with it. The only obstacle to this flow of
energy is inebriation, but even then, no one will find a closed door if he or
she has left and chooses to return. Once he or she has received the gift
of sobriety, each A.A. member is challenged on a daily basis to accept a
program of honesty.
My Higher Power created me for a
purpose in life. I ask him to accept my honest efforts to continue on my
journey in the spiritual way of life. I call on Him for strength to know
and seek His will.
©Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS
ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.©
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Comradeship in Peril
We A.A.'s are like the passengers of a great liner the moment after
rescue from shipwreck, when camaraderie, joyousness, and democracy pervade the
vessel from steerage to captain's table.
Unlike the feelings of the ship's
passengers, however, our joy in escape from disaster does not subside as we go
our individual ways. The feeling of sharing in a common peril - relapse into
alcoholism - continues to be an important element in the powerful cement which
binds us of A.A. together.
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Our first
woman alcoholic had been a patient of Dr. Harry Tiebout's,
and he had handed her a prepublication manuscript copy of the Big Book. The
first reading made her rebellious, but the second convinced her. Presently she
came to a meeting held in our living room, and from there she returned to the
sanitarium carrying this classic message to a fellow patient: "We aren't
alone any more."
1.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 17 - 2. A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 18
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"Abandon
yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to
Him and to your fellows. Clear away the
wreckage of your past. Give
freely of what you find and join us. We
shall be with you in the
Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will
surely meet some of us as you
trudge the Road of Happy Destiny."
~Alcoholics
Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You, pg. 164~
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A.A. Thought for the Day
My
relationships with my children have greatly improved. Those children who saw me
drunk and were ashamed, those children who turned away in fear and even loathing
have seen me sober and like me, have turned to me in confidence and trust and
have forgotten the past as best they could. They have given me a chance for
companionship that I had completely missed. I am their father or their mother
now. Not just "that person that Mom or Dad married and God knows
why." I am a part of my home now. Have I found something that I had lost?
Meditation
for the Day
Our
true measure of success in life is the measure of spiritual progress that we
have revealed in our lives. Others should be able to see a demonstration of
God's will in our lives. The measure of His will that those around us have seen
worked out in our daily living is the measure of our true success. We can do
our best to be a demonstration each day of the power of God in human lives, an
example of the working out of the grace of God in the hearts of men and women.
Prayer for
the Day
I pray
that I may so live that others will see in me something of the working out of
the will of God. I pray that my life may be a demonstration of what the grace
of God can do.