~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~
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Surrender
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"There are two things I've learned from
this program.
First, to surrender completely.
I was fighting a losing battle with the
bottle.
I gave up, and through defeat, I won.
Second, to change myself, because the
world isn't
going to change to suit 'poor little
old me.'
It's just this simple -- whatever it is
in me
that led me down the alcoholic road to
misery,
I no longer want any part of it."
c.1976,
AA for the Woman (AA Pamphlet P-5), p. 17
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Thought to Consider . . .
Take a walk with God.
He will meet you at the Steps.
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A S A P = Always Say A Prayer
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What I've Learned
From: "Building a
New Life"
There have been
some hard times too during these years of sobriety. When I was five years
sober, the daughter who drove me to the treatment program and helped me get
admitted disappeared. My AA friends helped me search for her, but she has never
been found. Her mother and I raised her three daughters. I did not have to take
a drink. I went to lots of meetings to relieve the pain. When I lost a second
daughter to cancer a few years ago, I did the same thing.
What I’ve learned
is that it doesn't matter what hardships and losses I've endured in sobriety, I
have not had to go back to drinking. As long as I work the program, keep being
of service, go to meetings, and keep my spiritual life together, I can live a
decent life.
2001, AAWS, Inc., Alcoholics Anonymous, page 485
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RECOVERY BY PROXY?
They [the
Promises] will always materialize if we work for them.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS p. 84
Sometimes I
think: "Making these amends is going too far! No one should have to humble
himself like that!" However, it is this very humbling of myself that
brings me that much closer to the sunlight of the spirit. A.A. is the
only hope I have if I am to continue healing and gain a life of happiness,
friendship and harmony.
©Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.©
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"Look Before You Leap"?
"Wise men
and women rightly give a top rating to the virtue of prudence. They know that without
this all important attribute little wisdom is to be had.
"Mere 'looking before we leap' is
not enough. If our looking is charged with
fear, suspicion, or anger, we had
better not have looked or acted at all."
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"We lose the fear of making
decisions, great and small, as we realize that
should our choice prove wrong we can,
if we will, learn from the experience.
Should our decision be the right one,
we can thank God for giving us the
courage and the grace that caused us so
to act."
LETTER,
1966
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"To
sum up about sex: We earnestly pray for the right ideal, for
guidance in each questionable
situation, for sanity, and for the
strength to do the right thing. If sex
is very troublesome, we throw
ourselves the harder into helping
others. We think of their needs
and work for them. This takes us out of
ourselves. It quiets the
imperious urge, when to yield would
mean heartache."
~Alcoholics
Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 70~
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A.A. Thought for the Day
Here are answers to the question of how a person can live without
liquor and be happy: "The things we put in place of drinking are more than
substitutes for it. One is the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous. In this
company, you find release from care, boredom, and worry. Your imagination will
be fired. Life will mean something at last. The most satisfactory years of your
existence lie ahead. Among other A.A.s you will make lifelong friends. You will
be bound to them with new and wonderful ties." Does life mean something to
me now?
Meditation for the Day
Do you want the full and complete satisfaction that you find in serving
God
and all the satisfactions of the world also? It is not easy to serve
both God
and the world. It is difficult to claim the rewards of both. If you
work for
God, you will still have great rewards in the world. But you must be
prepared
to sometimes stand apart from the world. You cannot always turn to the
world and expect all the rewards that life has to offer. If
you are trying
sincerely to serve God, you will have other and greater rewards than
the
world has to offer.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may not expect too much from the world.
I pray that I may also be content with the rewards that come from serving God.