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Your
Daily Reprieve for Tuesday February 7, 2017
From Stuart.
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When a person doesn't understand
something, he feels internal discord: however he doesn't search for that
discord in himself, as he should, but searches outside of himself. Thence a
war develops with that which he doesn't understand.
~Anton Checkov
"Up to now AA seems to have taken
the right turning at each new crossroad. This could scarcely have been our
doing alone. Our Fellowship has afforded a convincing proof of that wise old
adage which declares that 'man's extremity is God's opportunity.'"
~Grapevine: Bill W., November 1961
Normality is a paved road,
it’s comfortable to walk
but no flowers grow on it.
~ Vincent van Gogh
Remember, you don't forgive someone
for his or her sake -
you forgive them for your sake.
~ Stephanie Sarkis
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"Lack
of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by
which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. Obviously. But where and how were we to find this Power? Well, that's exactly what this book is about." Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 45 |
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Step Twelve - "Having had a spiritual
awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to
alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs."
A.A.'s manner of making ready to receive this gift lies in the practice of the Twelve Steps in our program. So let's consider briefly what we have been trying to do up to this point: Step One showed us an amazing paradox: We found that we were totally unable to be rid of the alcohol obsession until we first admitted that we were powerless over it. In Step Two we saw that since we could not restore ourselves to sanity, some Higher Power must necessarily do so if we were to survive. Consequently, in Step Three we turned our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. For the time being, we who were atheist or agnostic discovered that our own group, or A.A. as a whole, would suffice as a higher power. Beginning with Step Four, we commenced to search out the things in ourselves which had brought us to physical, moral, and spiritual bankruptcy. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory. Looking at Step Five, we decided that an inventory, taken alone, wouldn't be enough. We knew we would have to quit the deadly business of living alone with our conflicts, and in honesty confide these to God and another human being. At Step Six, many of us balked--for the practical reason that we did not wish to have all our defects of character removed, because we still loved some of them too much. Yet we knew we had to make a settlement with the fundamental principle of Step Six. So we decided that while we still had some flaws of character that we could not yet relinquish, we ought nevertheless to quit our stubborn, rebellious hanging on to them. We said to ourselves, "This I cannot do today, perhaps, but I can stop crying out `No, never!' " Then, in Step Seven, we humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings such as He could or would under the conditions of the day we asked. |
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Twenty-Four
Hours
A.A.
Thought For The Day
A night club crowded with men and
women
all dressed up in evening clothes looks like a
very festive place. But you should see the rest rooms of that night club
the
next morning. What a mess! People have been sick all over the place and does
it smell! The glamour of the night before is all gone and only the stink of
the morning after is left. In A.A. we learn
to take a long view of drinking instead of a short view. We learn to
think less about the pleasure of the moment and more about the consequences.
Has the night before become
less important to me and the morning after more important? Meditation For The Day Only a few more steps and then God's power shall
be
seen and known in my life. I am now
walking in darkness, surrounded by the limitations of space and time.
But
even in this darkness, I can have faith and can be a light to guide feet that
are afraid. I believe that God's power will break through the darkness and my
prayers will pierce even to the ears of God Himself. But only a cry from the
heart, a trusting cry, ever pierces that darkness and reaches to the divine
ear of God.
Prayer For The Day I pray that the divine power of God will help my human weakness.
I
pray that my prayer may reach through the darkness to the ear of God.
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Ghosts
AA experience has taught us we cannot live alone with our pressing problems and the character defects which cause or aggravate them. If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember, if we have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever. We have to talk to somebody about them. c. 1952 AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 55 Thought to Consider . . . Trust God. Clean house. Help others. *~*AACRONYMS*~* Y A N A
You Are Not Alone
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Daily
Reflection
A PATH TO FAITH
True humility and an open mind can lead
us to faith, and
every A.A. meeting is an assurance that
God will restore us
to sanity if we rightly relate ourselves
to Him.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 33
My last drunk had landed me in the
hospital, totally broken.
It was then that I was able to see my
past float in front of
me. I realized that, through drinking, I
had lived every
nightmare I had ever had. My own
self-will and obsession
to drink had driven me into a dark pit of
hallucinations,
blackouts and despair. Finally beaten, I
asked for God's
help. His presence told me to believe. My
obsession for
alcohol was taken away and my paranoia
has since been
lifted. I am no longer afraid. I know my
life is healthy and
sane.
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Keep It
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An alcoholic spends his life committing suicide on the installment plan. -- Laurence Peter None of us woke up one morning and found we had suddenly turned into an addict. We got to be one by practice. And we practiced often. We ignored our families--we left work early--and went drinking and drugging. Daily, we chose chemicals over anything else. Likewise, getting sober is no accident. We work the program. At meetings, we're reminded to help others. We all get sober on the installment plan. A day at a time. We got sick one day at a time; we recover one day at a time. Prayer for the Day: Today, with my Higher Power's help, I'll be happier, more honest, more sober. Sobriety is like a good savings account. Higher Power, help me to put in more than I take out. Action for the Day: I'll go over my Step One to remind myself it's no accident I'm an addict. |
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