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Destiny
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"Yes, we are again citizens of the world.
It is a distraught world, very tired, very uncertain.
It has worshipped its own self-sufficiency --
and that has failed.
We AA's are a people who once did that very thing.
That philosophy failed us too.
So perhaps, here and there, our example of recovery can help.
As individuals, we have a responsibility,
maybe a *double responsibility*.
It may be that we have a date with destiny."
Bill W., October 1944
c. 1988AA Grapevine, The Language of the Heart, p. 100
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Thought to Consider . . .

What if I were caring rather than judgmental?

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A A = Altruistic Action

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Distinctions

Step Nine: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

"The making of direct amends divides those we should approach into several classes. There will be those who ought to be dealt with just as soon as we become reasonably confident that we can maintain our sobriety. There will be those to whom we can make only partial restitution, lest complete disclosures do them or others more harm than good. There will be other cases where action ought to be deferred, and still others in which by the very nature of the situation we shall never be able to make direct personal contact at all."

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I AM RESPONSIBLE

For the readiness to take the full consequences of our past acts, and to take

responsibility for the well-being of others at the same time, is the very spirit of Step Nine.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 87

In recovery, and through the help of Alcoholics Anonymous, I learn that the very thing I fear is my freedom. It comes from my tendency to recoil from taking responsibility for anything: I deny, I ignore, I blame, I avoid. Then one day, I look, I admit, I accept. The freedom, the healing and the recovery I experience is in the looking, admitting and accepting. I learn to say, "Yes, I am responsible." When I can speak those words with honesty and sincerity, then I am free.

Â©Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.Â©
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Wider Understanding

To reach more alcoholics, understanding of A.A. and public good will towards A.A. must go on growing everywhere.

We need to be on still better terms with medicine, religion, employers, governments, courts, prisons, mental hospitals,

and all enterprises in the alcoholism field. We need the increasing good will of editors, writers,

television and radio channels. These publicity outlets need to be opened ever wider.

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Nothing matters more to A.A.'s future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern

communication. Used unselfishly and well, it can produce results surpassing our present imagination.
Should we handle this great instrument badly, we shall be shattered by the
ego manifestations of our own people? Against this peril, A.A. members'
anonymity before the general public is our shield and our buckler.

1. TWELVE CONCEPTS, p. 52 - 2. GRAPEVINE, NOVEMBER 1960
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"...we have ceased fighting anything or anyone, even alcohol."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 84~
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A.A. Thought for the Day

"What draws newcomers to A.A. and gives them hope? They hear the
stories of men and women whose experiences tally with their own. The
expressions on the faces of the women, that undefinable something in
the eyes of the men, the stimulating atmosphere of the A.A. clubroom,
conspire to let them know that there is haven at last. The very
practical approach to their problems, the absence of intolerance of
any kind, the informality, the genuine democracy, the uncanny
understanding that these people in A.A. have is irresistible." Have
I found a real haven in A.A.?

Meditation for the Day

"If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." The
eye of the soul is the will. If your will is to do the will of God,
to serve Him with your life, to serve Him by helping others, then
truly shall your whole body be full of light. The important thing is
to strive to attune your will to the will of God, a single eye to
God's purpose, desiring nothing less than that His purposes be
fulfilled. Try to seek in all things the advance of His kingdom,
seek the spiritual values of honesty and purity, unselfishness and
love, and earnestly desire spiritual growth. Then your life will
emerge from the darkness of futility into the light of victory.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that my eye may be single.

I pray that my life may be lived in the light of the best that I know.