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Your
Daily Reprieve for Thursday December 24,
2015
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The truth that many people never understand,
until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more
you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you
in proportion to your fear of being hurt. ~Thomas Merton
Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours.
They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If
you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will
you do with this priceless treasure? --Anonymous
Christmas has lost its meaning for us because we
have lost the spirit of expectancy. We cannot prepare for an observance. We
must prepare for an experience.--Handel H. Brow
Christmas time is like a smokey fire that wraps
itself around you. There's warmth in it, a smell to it, a fragrance oh
so subtle. It weaves a spell of nostalgia with good memories...and some...not
so good. What will this Chrismas day bring for you? Blessings. After today,
you are all in. Pause for a moment while anticipation is high, resolve
to keep your spirit strong through joy, dissappointment, triumph, and
loss. God is with you in your reflection.
~Prayables
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Step Eleven - "Sought through prayer and meditation
to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only
for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out."
We also fall into another similar temptation. We form ideas as to what we think God's will is for other people. We say to ourselves, "This one ought to be cured of his fatal malady," or "That one ought to be relieved of his emotional pain," and we pray for these specific things. Such prayers, of course, are fundamentally good acts, but often they are based upon a supposition that we know God's will for the person for whom we pray. This means that side by side with an earnest prayer there can be a certain amount of presumption and conceit in us. It is A.A.'s experience that particularly in these cases we ought to pray that God's will, whatever it is, be done for others as well as for ourselves. p. 104 |
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A.A. Thought For The Day
We have been given a new life, just because we happened to become alcoholics. We certainly don't deserve the new life that has been given us. There is little in our past to warrant the life we have now. Many people live good lives from their youth on, not getting into serious trouble, being well adjusted to life, and yet they have not found all that we drunks have found. We had the good fortune to find Alcoholics Anonymous and with it a new life. We are among the lucky few in the world who have learned a new way of life. Am I deeply grateful for the new life that I have learned in A.A.? Meditation For The Day A deep gratitude to the Higher Power for all the blessings which we have and which we don't deserve has come to us. We thank God and mean it. Then comes service to our fellow men, out of gratitude for what we have received. This entails some sacrifice of ourselves and our own affairs. But we are glad to do it. Gratitude, service, and then sacrifice are the steps that lead to good A.A. work. They open the door to a new life for us. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may gladly serve others, out of deep gratitude for what I have received. I pray that I may keep a deep sense of obligation. |
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(\ ~~ /) ( \ (AA)/ ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Amends "Though the variations were many, my main theme was always 'How godawful I am!' Just as I often exaggerated my modest attainments by pride, so I exaggerated my defects through guilt. I would race about, confessing all (and a great deal more) to whoever would listen. Believe it or not, I took this widespread exposure of my sins to be great humility on my part, and considered it a great spiritual asset and consolation! But later on I realized at depth that the great harms I had done others were not truly regretted. These episodes were merely the basis for storytelling and exhibitionism." Bill W., AA Grapevine, June 1961 c. 1967AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 311 ^*^*^*^*^ Thought to Consider . . . Don't mess up an amends with an excuse. *~*AACRONYMS*~* W H O M E ? = Willingness, Honesty, Open-mindedness, Must Exist |
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Daily
Reflection
A "SANE AND HAPPY
USEFULNESS"
We have come to believe
He would like us to keep our heads
in the clouds with Him,
but that our feet ought to be firmly
planted on earth. That
is where our fellow travelers are,
and that is where our
work must be done. These are the
realities for us. We have
found nothing incompatible
between a powerful
spiritual experience and a life of sane
and happy usefulness
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS,
p. 130
All the prayer and
meditation in the world will not help me
unless they are
accompanied by action. Practicing the
principles in all my
affairs shows me the care that God
takes in all parts of
my life. God appears in my world when
I move aside, and allow
Him to step into it.
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Pot
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KEEPING
CHRISTMAS
By Henry Van Dyke
(1905)
There
is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping
Christmas.
Are you willing...
*to forget what you have done for
other people, and to remember what other people have done for you;
*to ignore what the world owes you,
and to think what you owe the world;
*to put your rights in the
background, and your duties in the middle distance, and your chances to do a
little more than your duty in the foreground;
*to see that men and women are just
as real as you are, and try to look behind their faces to their hearts, hungry
for joy;
*to own up to the fact that probably
the only good reason for your existence is not what you are going to get out
of life, but what you are going to give to life;
*to close your book of complaints
against the management of the universe, and look around you for a place where
you can sow a few seeds of happiness.
Are you willing to do these things even
for a day? Then you can keep Christmas.
Are you willing...
*to stoop down and consider the needs
and desires of little children;
*to remember the weakness and
loneliness of people growing old;
*to stop asking how much your friends
love you, and ask yourself whether you love them enough;
*to bear in mind the things that
other people have to bear in their hearts;
*to try to understand what those who
live in the same home with you really want, without waiting for them to tell
you;
*to trim your lamp so that it will
give more light and less smoke, and to carry it in front so that your shadow
will fall behind you;
*to make a grave for your ugly
thoughts, and a garden for your kindly feelings, with the gate open—
Are you willing to do these things,
even for a day? Then you can keep Christmas.
Are you willing...
*to believe that love is the
strongest thing in the world—
stronger than hate, stronger than evil,
stronger than death—
and that the blessed life which began
in
Then you can keep Christmas.
And if you can keep it for a day, why
not always?
But you can never keep it
alone.
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