A Prayer & Some Thoughts - September

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September 28


Cultivating Responsibility Prayer

Lord,
I pray that I continue to move forward and become a more responsible individual.
I pray that I gain the strength to move in a positive direction and that I become the best version of myself.
I pray that I soon become more gracious, understanding and patient in all of my ways.

Please help me to be faithful in all the duties You have entrusted to me this day, fulfilling each with great care and love!

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Just a Thought

In recovery, we learn to use words in a kind, wise way.

We use words to bring peace to others. We can use words to tell God and others how much we care.
Or we can use words to hurt others. We can curse them and scare them away. We often did when we used alcohol and other drugs.

We treat words as a gift from God. We use words to build our relationships.

So ............

Do I always use words in a kind way? Do I treat words as a powerful gift from God? Do my words make the world better or worse for those who hear me speak?

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Just a Contemplation

Accepting Responsibility

Choose to live for, rather than against.
Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining.

Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.

You have so very much to live for. Look at each twist and turn in the road with a grateful heart, and you'll find real treasure in every direction.

Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment, you'll have much to live for.

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Steps and Traditions

AA's Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole.

AA's Twelve Traditions apply to the life of the Fellowship itself. They outline the means by which AA maintains its unity and relates itself to the world about it, the way it lives and grows.

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions Page 15

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Just a Quote

“With each new day I put away the past and discover the new beginnings I have been given.” ~ Angela L. Wozniak