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God grant me the
Serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
and Wisdom to know the difference.
Thy will, not mine, be done.
October 3, 2005
Daily Reflections
SERENITY AFTER THE STORM
Someone who knew what he was talking about once remarked that
pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress. How heartily
we A.A.'s can agree with him. . . .
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p p. 93-94
When on the roller coaster of emotional turmoil, I remember that
growth is often painful. My evolution in the A.A. program has
taught me that I must experience the inner change, however painful,
that eventually guides me from selfishness to selflessness. If I
am to have serenity, I must STEP my way past emotional turmoil and
its subsequent hangover, and be grateful for continuing spiritual
progress.
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Twenty-Four Hours A Day
A.A. Thought For
The Day
How do I talk
with new prospects? Am I always trying to dominate
the
conversation? Do I lay down the law and tell prospects what
they will have
to do? Do I judge them privately and feel that they
have small
chance of making the program? Do I belittle them to
myself? Or am I
willing to bare my soul so as to get them talking
about
themselves? And, then, am I willing to be a good listener,
not
interrupting, but hearing them out to the end? Do I feel deeply
that they are my
brothers or my sisters? Will I do all I can to help
them along the
path to sobriety?
Meditation For
The Day
"The work of
righteousness shall be peace and the effect of
righteousness
shall be quietness and assurance forever." Only
when the soul
attains this calm, can there be true spiritual work
done, and mind
and soul and body be strong to conquer and bear all
things. Peace is
the result of righteousness. There is no peace in
wrong doing, but
if we live the way God wants us to live, quietness
and assurance
follow. Assurance is that calmness born of a deep
certainty of
God's strength available to us and in His power to love
and guard us
from all harm and wrong doing.
Prayer For The
Day
I pray that I
may attain a state of true calmness.
I pray that I
may live in quietness and peace.
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As Bill Sees It
The Forgotten Mountain, p. 100
When I was a child, I acquired some of the traits that had a lot to do
with my insatiable craving for alcohol. I was brought up in a little
town in Vermont, under the shadow of Mount Aeolus. An early
recollection is that of looking up at this vast and mysterious
mountain, wondering what it meant and whether I could ever climb
that high. But I was presently distracted by my aunt who, as a
fourth-birthday present, made me a plate of fudge. For the next
thirty-five years I pursued the fudge of life and quite forgot about the
mountain.
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When self-indulgence is less than ruinous, we have a milder word for
it. We call it "taking our comfort."
1. A.A. Comes Of Age, pp. 52-53
2. 12 & 12, p. 67
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Alcoholics Anonymous - Fourth Edition
Gratitude In Action
The story of Dave B., one of the founders of A.A. in Canada in 1944.
I was very surprised when I got a copy of the Big Book in the mail the following day. And each day after that, for nearly a year, I got a letter or a note, something from Bobbie or from Bill or one of the other members of the central office in New York. In October 1944, Bobbie wrote: "You sound very sincere and from now on we will be counting on you to perpetuate the Fellowship of A.A. where you are. You will find enclosed some queries from alcoholics. We think you are now ready to take on this responsibility." She had enclosed some four hundred letters that I answered in the course of the following weeks. Soon, I began to get answers back.
p. 196
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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.**********************************************************Foreword
With the publication of the book "Alcoholics Anonymous" in 1939, the pioneering period ended and a prodigious chain reaction set in as the recovered alcoholics carried their message to still others. In the next years alcoholics flocked to A.A. by tens of thousands, largely as the result of excellent and continuous publicity freely given by magazines and newspapers throughout the world. Clergymen and doctors alike rallied to the new movement, giving it unstinted support and endorsement.
p. 17
--E. B. White
Love your enemies. It will drive them nuts.
--Eleanor Doan
"A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming,
understand the unconventional, tolerate the unpleasant,
overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable."
--Billy Graham
"We're still not where we're going, but we're not where we were."
--Natasha Jasefowitz
"Behavioral researcher Shad Helmstetter, in his book "Choice," says, 'When we meet someone who seems to have a good attitude about everything, that really isn't the case. The person simply has made a lot of independent choices to have a
good attitude about many individual things." Remember, a positive outlook is a choice - and the decision is yours."
--Neil Eskelin
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Father Leo's Daily Meditation
FREEDOM
"Freedom is not enough. "
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
The gift of freedom requires the acknowledgment of the benefactor, God. To experience
freedom without realizing its source is to miss the point; freedom requires responsibility.
When I was drinking, I demanded freedom without responsibility and I suffered. I created
in freedom my own horror stories. I hurt others because I did not respect in them what I
demanded for myself and slowly, ever so slowly, freedom slipped away.
Today I believe that my spiritual program reinforces my responsibility for my life. God
has created me with free will and I need to respect this gift in others. If I do not respect
others, I will never receive it. Dignity is a two way street.
Thank You for the freedom to experience myself in my treatment of my neighbor.
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Look to the Lord and his strength; seek His face always.
Psalm 105:4
Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy. He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of
joy, carrying sheaves with him.
Psalm 126:5-6
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Daily Inspiration
Be like a star and make your best even better. Lord, source of my joy, if I am shining I will brighten the day for both myself and those around me.Ask and you shall receive,
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Example is the best way to teach. Lord, may I teach Your goodness by the way I live my life.
Seek and ye shall find,
Knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Matthew 7:7
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