Your
Daily Reprieve for Friday February 3, 2017
From Stuart.
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"You cannot speak that which
you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot
translate that which you do not have. And you cannot give that which you do
not possess. To give it and to share it, and for it to be effective, you
first need to have it. Good communication starts with good preparation.
" --Jim Rohn
Life is so hard,
how can we be anything but kind?
~Jack Kornfeld
"True charity is the desire
to be useful to others
without thought of
recompense."
~Emanuel Swedenborg
"Pleasure is a by-product of
doing something that is worth doing.
Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way." --A. Lawrence Lowell
The golden rule of conduct
is mutual toleration,
seeing that we will never all
think alike
and we shall always see truth in
fragment
and from different points of
vision.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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"Most of us sense that real
tolerance of other people´s shortcomings
and viewpoints and a respect for their opinions are attitudes which make us more useful to others." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 19~ |
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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."
Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us. We no longer live in a completely hostile world. We are no longer lost and frightened and purposeless. The moment we catch even a glimpse of God's will, the moment we begin to see truth, justice, and love as the real and eternal things in life, we are no longer deeply disturbed by all the seeming evidence to the contrary that surrounds us in purely human affairs. We know that God lovingly watches over us. We know that when we turn to Him, all will be well with us, here and hereafter. p. 105 |
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Thought For The Day
By drinking, we escaped from boredom for a while. We almost forgot our troubles. But when we sobered up, our troubles were twice as bad. Drinking had only made them worse. In A.A., we really escape boredom. Nobody's bored at an A.A. meeting. We stick around after it's over and we hate to leave. Drinking gave us a temporary feeling of importance. When we're drinking, we kid ourselves into thinking we are somebody. We tell tall stories to build ourselves up. In A.A., we don't want that kind of self-importance. We have real self-respect and honesty and humility. Have I found something much better and more satisfactory than drinking? Meditation For The Day I believe that my faith and God's power can accomplish anything in human relationships. There is no limit to what these two things can do in this field. Only believe, and anything can happen. said; "I can do all things through Him who strengtheneth me." All walls that divide you from other human beings can fall by your faith and God's power. These are the two essentials. Everyone can be moved by these. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may try to strengthen my faith day by day. I pray that I may rely more and more on God's power. |
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Tolerance
Finally, we begin to see that all people, including ourselves, are to some extent emotionally ill as well as frequently wrong, and then we approach true tolerance and see what real love for our fellows actually means. It will become more and more evident as we go forward that it is pointless to become angry, or to get hurt by people who, like us, are suffering from the pains of growing up. c. 1952 AAWS Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 92 Thought to Consider . . . Honesty gets us sober, tolerance keeps us sober. *~*AACRONYMS*~* P U T
Patience, Understanding,
Tolerance
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Daily
Reflection
FILLING THE VOID
We needed to ask ourselves but one short
question. "Do I
now believe, or am I even willing to
believe, that there is a
Power greater than myself?" As soon
as a man can say that
he does believe, or is willing to
believe, we emphatically
assure him that he is on his way.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 47
I was always fascinated with the study of
scientific
principles. I was emotionally and
physically distant from
people while I pursued Absolute
Knowledge. God and
spirituality were meaningless academic
exercises. I was a
modern man of science, knowledge was my
Higher Power.
Given the right set of equations, life
was merely another
problem to solve. Yet my inner self was
dying from my
outer man's solution to life's problems
and the solution was
alcohol. In spite of my intelligence,
alcohol became my
Higher Power. It was through the
unconditional love which
emanated from A.A. people and meetings
that I was able to
discard alcohol as my Higher Power. The
great void was
filled. I was no longer lonely and apart
from life. I had
found a true power greater than myself, I
had found God's
love. There is only one equation which
really matters to me
now: God is in A.A.
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--Step Four of Alcoholic Anonymous We avoid the Fourth Step. We put it off. We're scared of what we will find inside of us. We may find out we're mean, angry, selfish, and afraid. We might see how badly we've acted to others, to ourselves. We have power to hurt, and we've used it. We all have these things inside of us. We also have love, trust, faith, and hope. We love art, music, nature, or sports. We have power to heal, and we have used it too. The Fourth Step helps us to know our inner power. As we learn about our own power, we can use it carefully, on purpose, to do good. Prayer for the Day Higher Power, help me use my power to do Your will. Let Your power work through me too. Action for the Day Today I'll watch my own actions and words. I'll see how my power affects others. I'll talk about this with my sponsor.
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