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Your
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2015
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“Our fatigue is often caused not by work,
but by worry, frustration and resentment.”
-- Dale Carnegie
"Service is the rent we pay for
living."
~Evelyn Lieberman
"Goodness is a process of becoming, not of
being.
What we do over and over again is what we become
in the end."
~ Joan Chittister
"A gift inspires
another gift, and a miracle inspires the next miracle.
It's got to start somewhere; it might as well start with you." --Scott Hamilton |
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"God
has abundantly supplied this world with fine doctors,
psychologists, and practitioners of various kinds. Do not hesitate to take your health problems to such persons. Most of them give freely of themselves, that their fellows may enjoy sound minds and bodies." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Family Afterward, pg. 133~ |
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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 discover that we do receive guidance for our lives to just about the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on order and on our terms. Almost any experienced A.A. will tell how his affairs have taken re pp. 104-105 |
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Twenty
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A.A. Thought For The Day
I am glad to be a part of A.A., of that great fellowship that is spreading over the world. I am only one of the many A.A.'s, but I am one. I am grateful to be living at this time, when I can help A.A. to grow, when it needs me to put my shoulder to the wheel and help keep the movement going. I am glad to be able to be useful, to have a reason for living, a purpose in life. I want to lose my life in this great cause and so find it again. Am I grateful to be an A.A.? Meditation For The Day These meditations can teach us how to relax. We can be of service to other people in a small way at least. And we can be happy while doing it. We should not worry too much about people we cannot help. We can make it a habit to leave the outcome of the things we do to the Higher Power. We can go along through life doing the best we can, but without a feeling of urgency or strain. We can enjoy all the good things and the beauty of life, but at the same time depend deeply on God. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may give my life to this worthwhile cause. I pray that I may enjoy the satisfaction that comes from good work well done. |
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Daily
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(\ ~~ /) ( \ (AA)/ ) (_ /AA\ _) /AA\ ^*^*^*^*^ Defects "What we must recognize now is that we exult in some of our defects. We really love them. Who, for example, doesn't like to feel just a little superior to the next fellow, or even quite a lot superior? Isn't it true that we like to let greed masquerade as ambition? To think of liking lust seems impossible. But how many men and women speak love with their lips, and believe what they say, so that they can hide lust in a dark corner of their minds? And even while staying within conventional bounds, many people admit that their imaginary sex excursions are apt to be all dressed up as dreams of romance." c. 1952AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pp. 66-7 ^*^*^*^*^ Thought to Consider . . . If I want God to remove my character defects, I'll have to stop doing them. *~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~* T I M E = Things I Must Earn |
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Daily
Reflection
ACCEPTING SUCCESS OR
FAILURE
Furthermore, how shall
we come to terms with seeming
failure or success? Can
we now accept and adjust to either
without despair or
pride? Can we accept poverty, sickness,
loneliness, and
bereavement with courage and serenity?
Can we steadfastly
content ourselves with the humbler, yet
sometimes more durable,
satisfactions when the brighter,
more glittering
achievements are denied us?
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE
TRADITIONS, p. 112
After I found A.A. and
stopped drinking, it took a while
before I understood why
the First Step contained two parts:
my powerlessness over
alcohol, and my life's
unmanageability. In the
same way, I believed for a long
time that, in order to
be in tune with the Twelve Steps, it
was enough for me
"to carry this message to alcoholics."
That was rushing
things. I was forgetting that there were a
total of Twelve Steps
and that the Twelfth Step also had
more than one part.
Eventually I learned that it was
necessary for me to
"practice these principles" in all areas
of my life. In working
all the Steps thoroughly, I not only
stay sober and help
someone else to achieve sobriety, but
also I transform my
difficulty with living into a joy of
living.
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--Hoagy "One of the hardest lessons for me to learn is patience," admitted a fellow. "I've been in a race all my life. I suppose I could compare myself to the hare in the fable of ‘The Tortoise and the Hare.' I jump into things, rush at them, and never seem to cross the finish line. I get side-tracked by other things that seem to need immediate attention. I never have a sense of peace. Everything has to be done by yesterday. "I was even in a hurry in my marriage - which is one reason I'm divorced now. I wanted my wife to race with me. I wanted her to be perfect overnight. I nagged at her constantly. I was too impatient to let her grow at her own speed. Because I couldn't slow down, I couldn't allow her to be at peace either. "I thought I was doing all the changing and growing. When, in reality, all I was doing was bombarding my problems and projects with a lot of momentum and very little common sense." Today I will slow down. I only increase my difficulties when I try to solve them in a hurry.
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