Your
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From Stuart.
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Our culture operates with the idea that
healing means the absence of pain, but I’ve come to understand that healing
doesn’t mean that our pain and suffering go away. Healing is learning to live
in a different relationship with our pain and suffering so it does not
control us. The only way in which I can heal my wounds, the only way in which
I can awaken, is to live in the present moment in mindfulness, breathing in
and breathing out. Every time I come in contact with my fear, I first must
learn to establish an open relation with it, neither attaching to it nor
rejecting it, and then the next step is to see what is behind this fear. It’s
like turning over stones. I must continue to turn over stones until the day I
die, looking ever more deeply.
~At Hell’s Gate: A Soldier’s Journey from War to Peace by Claude Anshin Thomas
"Faith
is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and
sudden, startling joys."
- Madeleine L'Engle
"Five great enemies to peace inhabit
with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those
enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual
peace."
~Francesco Petrarch
There's no future in spending our
present
worrying about our past.
~ Tom Wilson
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demonstrated again and again: 'Once an
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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."
So, practicing these Steps, we had a spiritual awakening about which finally there was no question. Looking at those who were only beginning and still doubted themselves, the rest of us were able to see the change setting in. From great numbers of such experiences, we could predict that the doubter who still claimed that he hadn't got the "spiritual angle," and who still considered his well-loved A.A. group the higher power, would presently love God and call Him by name. p. 109 |
Twenty-Four
Hours
A.A. Thought For The Day In the past, we kept right on drinking in spite of all the trouble we got into. We were foolish enough to believe that drinking could still be fun in spite of everything that happened to us. When we came into A.A., we found a lot of people who, like ourselves, had had fun with drinking, but who now admitted that liquor had become nothing but trouble for them. And when we found that this thing had happened to a lot of other people besides ourselves, we realized that perhaps we weren't such odd ducks after all. Have I learned to admit that for me drinking has ceased to be fun and has become nothing but trouble? Meditation For The Day The lifeline, the line of rescue, is the line from the soul to God. On one end of the lifeline is our faith and on the other end is God's power. It can be a strong line and no soul can be overwhelmed who is linked to God by it. I will trust in this lifeline and never be afraid. God will save me from doing wrong and from the cares and troubles of life. I will look to God for help and trust Him for aid when I am emotionally upset. Prayer For The Day I pray that no lack of trust or fearfulness will make me disloyal to God. I pray that I may keep a strong hold on the lifeline of faith. |
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Thankfulness
I try to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion that we can ever know. Bill W., AA Grapevine, March 1962 c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 37 Thought to Consider . . . The peaks and valleys of my life have become gentle rolling hills. *~*AACRONYMS*~* G I F T S
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GETTING THE "SPIRITUAL ANGLE"
How often do we sit in AA meetings and
hear the speaker
declare, "But I haven't yet got the
spiritual angle." Prior to
this statement, he had described a
miracle of
transformation which had occurred in
him—not only his
release from alcohol, but a complete change
in his whole
attitude toward life and the living of it
It is apparent to
nearly everyone else present that he has
received a great
gift; " . . . except that he doesn't
seem to know it yet!"
We well know that this questioning
individual will tell us six
months or a year hence that he has found
faith in God.
LANGUAGE OF THE HEART, p. 275
A spiritual experience can be the
realization that a life
which once seemed empty and devoid of
meaning is now
joyous and full. In my life today, daily
prayer and
meditation, coupled with living the
Twelve Steps, has
brought about an inner peace and feeling
of belonging
which was missing when I was drinking.
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-- Bill W. At times, we'll go through pain and hardship. At times, we'll have doubts. At times, we'll get angry and think we just don't care anymore. These things can spiritually blind us. But this is normal. Hopefully, we'll be ready for those times. Hopefully, we will have friends who will be there for us. Thank God for these moments! Yes, hard times can make our spirits deep and strong. These moments tell us who we are as sober people. These moments help us grow and change. Spirituality is about choice. To be spiritual, we must turn ourselves over to the care of our Higher Power. Prayer for the Day God, help me find You in my moments of blindness. This is when I really need You. Today's Action Today I'll get ready for the hard times ahead. I will list my friends who will be there for me.
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