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08-26-2024, 06:33 AM | #26 |
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AA Thought for the Day
August 26 The Grace of God When men and women pour so much alcohol into themselves that they destroy their lives, they commit a most unnatural act. Defying their instinctive desire for self-preservation, they seem bent upon self-destruction. They work against their own deepest instinct. As they are humbled by the terrific beating administered by alcohol, the grace of God can enter them and expel their obsession. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Six) p. 64 Thought to Ponder . . . God enters us through our wounds. AA-related 'Alconym' G O D = Gift Of Desperation. ~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~ Change "How many of us would presume to declare, 'Well, I'm sober and I'm happy. What more can I want or do? I'm fine the way I am.' We know that the price of such self-satisfaction is an inevitable backslide, punctuated at some point by a very rude awakening. We have to grow or else deteriorate. For us, the status quo can only be for today, never for tomorrow. Change we must; we cannot stand still." Bill W., AAGrapevine, February 1961 As Bill Sees It, p. 25 Thought to Consider . . . There is no progress without change. *~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~* P A C E = Positive Attitudes Change Everything *~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~* Didn't Look Good Tradition Five: Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers. I was soon sitting beside a big hulk of a man. Decidedly unfriendly, he stared at me out of eyes which were slits in his red and swollen face. I had to agree with the doctor - he certainly didn't look good. But I told him my own story. I explained what a wonderful Fellowship we had, how well we understood each other. I bore down hard on the hopelessness of the drunk's dilemma. I insisted that few drunks could ever get well on their own steam, but that in our groups we could do together what we could not do separately. He interrupted to scoff at this and asserted he'd fix his wife, his partner, and his alcoholism by himself. 1981, AAWS, Inc., Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, page 152 *~*~*~*~*^ Grapevine Quote ^*~*~*~*~* "God has continued to send me many miracles since the first one occurred the day he gave me the courage and willingness to go to my first AA meeting." Oak Park, Illinois, September 1984 "Powerless Equals Free," Spiritual Awakenings II *~*~*~*~*^ Big Book & Twelve N' Twelve Quotes of the Day ^*~*~*~*~* "For the type of alcoholic who is able and willing to get well, little charity, in the ordinary sense of the word, is needed or wanted. The men who cry for money and shelter before conquering alcohol, are on the wrong track." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Working With Others, pg. 97~ "Without knowing it, had we not been brought to where we stood by a certain kind of faith? For did we not believe in our own reasoning? Did we not have confidence in our ability to think? What was that but a sort of faith? Yes, we had been faithful, abjectly faithful to the God of Reason. So, in one way or another, we discovered that faith had been involved all the time!" ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 53~ “Love and tolerance of others is our code.” -Alcoholics Anonymous p. 84 “Almost any experienced A.A. will tell how his affairs have taken remarkable and unexpected turns for the better as he tried to improve his conscious contact with God.” -Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p. 104-105 Misc. AA Literature - Quote 'Self-pity is one of the most unhappy and consuming defects that we know. It is a bar to all spiritual progress and can cut off all effective communication with our fellows because of its inordinate demands for attention and sympathy. It is a maudlin form of martyrdom, which we can ill afford. 'The remedy? Well, let's have a hard look at ourselves, and a still harder one at A.A.'s Twelve Steps to recovery. When we see how many of our fellow A.A.'s have used the Steps to transcend great pain and adversity, we shall be inspired to try these life-giving principles for ourselves. Prayer for the Day: God, we pray for faith and spiritual courage to face our problems. Grant us wisdom to know our weakness and strength to rebuild our lives. - From Stools & Bottles
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