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Promises
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"We
are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.
We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.
We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.
No matter how far down the scale we have gone,
we will see how our experience can benefit others.
That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.
We will lose interest in selfish things
and gain interest in our fellows.
Self-seeking will slip away.
Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.
Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us.
We will intuitively know how to handle
situations which used to baffle us.
We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us
what we could not do for ourselves."
c. 1976AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, pp 83-84
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Thought to Consider . . .
The Promises are a result; not a right.
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P R O G R A M =
People Relying On God Relay A Message.
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Basis
From "A.A. Is a
Philosophy":
"A
religion, properly, is of divine origin; governs the person in his relationship
with his Higher Power; and promises its rewards and punishments after death. A
philosophy is of human origin; governs the person in his relationship with his
fellowman; and promises its rewards and punishments during life. A.A., I
submit, is a philosophy. If we alcoholics follow the philosophy of A.A., we can
regain an understanding of our several religions.
1973 AAWS, Inc.; Came to Believe, 30th
printing 2004, pg. 5
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THE LAST
PROMISE
We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we
could not do for ourselves.
ALCOHOLICS
ANONYMOUS, p. 84
The last Promise in the Big Book came true for me on the
very first day of sobriety. God kept me sober that day, and on every other day
I allowed Him to operate in my life. He gives me the strength, courage and
guidance to meet my responsibilities in life so that I am then able to reach
out and help others stay sober and grow. He manifests within me, making me a
channel of His word, thought and deed. He works with my inner self, while I
produce in the outer world, for He will not do for me what I can do for myself.
I must be willing to do His work, so that He can function through me
successfully.
Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
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The Step That Keeps Us Growing
Sometimes, when friends tell us how
well we are doing, we know better inside. We know we aren't doing well enough.
We still can't handle life, as life is. There must be a serious flaw somewhere
in our spiritual practice and development. What, then, is it? The
chances are better than even that we shall locate our trouble in our
misunderstanding or neglect of A.A.'s Step Eleven - prayer, meditation, and the guidance of God.
The other Steps can keep most of us sober and somehow functioning. But
Step Eleven can keep us growing, if we try hard and work at it continually.
GRAPEVINE, JUNE
1958
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Though we work out our solution on the spiritual as well
as an altruistic plane, we favor hospitalization for the alcoholic who is
very jittery or befogged. More often than not, it is imperative that a
man's brain be cleared before he is approached, as he has then
a better chance of understanding and accepting what we have to
offer."
~Alcoholics
Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Doctor's Opinion, pg. xxvi~
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A.A. Thought for the Day
Let us continue with Steps Four,
Five, Six, Seven, and Ten. In taking a personal inventory of ourselves, we have
to face facts as they really are. We have to stop running away. We must face
reality. We must see ourselves as we really are. We must admit our faults
openly and try to correct them. We must try to see where we have been
dishonest, impure, selfish, and unloving. We do not do this once and forget it.
We do it every day of our lives, as long as we live. We are never done with
checking up on ourselves. Am I taking a daily inventory of myself?
Meditation for the Day
In improving our personal
lives, we have Unseen help. We were not made so that we could see God. That
would be too easy for us and there would be no merit in obeying Him. It takes
an act of faith,
a venture of belief, to realize the Unseen Power.
Yet we have much evidence of God's existence in the strength that many people
have received from the act of faith, the venture of belief. We are in a box of
space and time and we can see neither our souls nor God. God and the human
spirit are both outside the limitations of space and time. Yet our Unseen help
is effective here and now. That has been proven in thousands of changed lives.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may make the great venture of belief.
I pray that my vision may not be blocked by intellectual pride.