AA Thoughts For Today - June

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AA Thought for the Day

June 18

Control
We alcoholics are men and women who have lost the ability to control
our drinking. We know that no real alcoholic ever recovers control. All of
us felt at times that we were regaining control, but such intervals—usually
brief—were inevitably followed by still less control, which led in time to pitiful
and incomprehensible demoralization.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (More About Alcoholism) p. 30

Thought to Ponder . . .
When we try to control our drinking, we have already lost control.

AA-related 'Alconym'
A A = Alcoholic's Answer.

~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~

Resentment
"Resentment is the 'number one' offender.
It destroys more alcoholics than anything else.
>From it stem all forms of spiritual disease,
for we have been not only mentally and physically ill,
we have been spiritually sick.
When the spiritual malady is overcome,
we straighten out mentally and physically."
1976AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 64

Thought to Consider . . .
We are prisoners of our own resentments.
Forgiveness unlocks the door and sets us free.

*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
F A I L U R E =
Fearful, Arrogant, Insecure, Lonely, Uncertain, Resentful, Empty.

*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*

Service and Support
From "The Joys of Service:"
"In Denver in 1975 at the International Convention, I heard many great things, but one that stands out is: 'The key to
happiness is not to concentrate on yourself, but to lose yourself in others.' I liked what Carl W. told our group when he
ended his talk with these words for new people: 'Let us love you until you can learn to love yourselves.'"
1993, The Home Group: Heartbeat of AA, page 51

*~*~*~*~*^ Grapevine Quote ^*~*~*~*~*

"Step Six may be the greatest act of courage in the whole twelve-step process: a total act of faith. I have to trust that
God will see the big picture and make the right choices."
Tujunga, California, June 2010
"My Armor,"
Step By Step

*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book & Twelve N' Twelve Quotes of the Day ^*~*~*~*~*

"...we tried to shape a sane and sound ideal for our future sex life.
We subjected each relation to this test - was it selfish or not? We
asked God to mold our ideals and help us to live up to them. We
remembered always that our sex powers were God-given and therefore
good, neither to be used lightly or selfishly nor to be despised and
loathed."
Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 69

"We agnostically inclined would not feel satisfied with a proposal
which does not lend itself to reasonable approach and interpretation.
Hence we are at pains to tell why we think our present faith is
reasonable, why we think it more sane and logical to believe than not
to believe, why we say our former thinking was soft and mushy when we
threw up our hands in doubt and said, 'We don't know.'"
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 53~

"For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could not
survive the certain trials and low spots ahead."
-Alcoholics Anonymous p. 15 (Bill's Story)

"This being so, we think it logically follows that sobriety -- first, last, and all the time -- is the only thing we need to work for."
-Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p. 45 (Step Four)

Misc. AA Literature - Quote

My experience as an old-timer has to some degree paralleled your own and that of many others. We all find that the time comes when we are not allowed to manage and conduct the functional affairs of groups, areas, or, in my case, A.A. as a whole. In the end we can only be worth as much as our spiritual example has justified. To that extent, we become useful symbols--and that's just about it.
I have become a pupil of the A.A. movement rather than the teacher I once thought I was.

Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, give me the willingness to work diligently for my own happiness.