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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 8, 2005

         Daily Reflections

        DAILY INVENTORY

          . . . . and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
          ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 59

          I was beginning to approach my new life of sobriety with
          unaccustomed enthusiasm. New friends were cropping up
          and some of my battered friendships had begun to be
          repaired. Life was exciting, and I even began to enjoy my
          work, becoming so bold as to issue a report on the lack
          of proper care for some of our clients. One day a co-worker
          informed me that my boss was really sore because a complaint,
          submitted over his head, had caused him much discomfort at
          the hands of his superiors. I knew that my report had created
          the problem, and began to feel responsible for my boss's
          difficulty. In discussing the affair, my co-worker tried to
          reassure me that an apology was not necessary, but I soon
          became convinced that I had to do something, regardless of how
          it might turn out. When I approached my boss and owned up to
          my hand in his difficulties, he was surprised. But unexpected
          things came out of our encounter, and my boss and I were able
          to agree to interact more directly and effectively in the future.

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         Twenty-Four Hours A Day

          A.A. Thought For The Day

          There is such a thing as being too loyal to any one group.
          Do I feel put out when another group starts and some members
          of my group leave it and branch out into new territory? Or do
          I send them out with my blessing? Do I visit that new offshoot
          group and help it along? Or do I sulk in my own tent? A.A.
          grows by the starting of new groups all the time. I must
          realize that it's a good thing for a large group to split up
          into smaller ones, even it if means that the large group
          --my own group--becomes smaller.  Am I always ready to help
          new groups?

          Meditation For The Day

          Pray--and keep praying until it brings peace and serenity and
          a feeling of communion with One who is near and ready to help.
          The thought of God is balm for our hates and fears. In praying
          to God, we find healing for hurt feelings and resentments. In
          thinking of God, doubts and fears leave us. Instead of those
          doubts and fears, there will flow into our hearts such faith
          and love as is beyond the power of material things to give, and
          such peace as the world can neither give nor take away. And with
          God, we can have the tolerance to live and let live.

          Prayer For The Day

          I pray that I may have true tolerance and understanding.
          I pray that I may keep striving for these difficult things.

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        As Bill Sees It            
        
         Spiritual Kindergarten, p. 95

             "We are only operating a spiritual kindergarten in which people are
             enabled to get over drinking and find the grace to go on living to
             better effect.  Each man's theology has to be his own quest, his own
             affair."

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             When the Big Book was being planned, some members thought that it
             ought to be Christian in the doctrinal sense.  Others had no objection
             to the use of the word "God", but wanted to avoid doctrinal issues.
             Spirituality, yes.  Religion, no.  Still others wanted a psychological
             book, to lure the alcoholic in.  Once in, he could take God or leave
             Him alone as he wished.

             To the rest of us this was shocking, but happily we listened.  Our
             group conscience was at work to construct the most acceptable and
             effective book possible.

             Every voice was playing its appointed part.  Our atheists and
             agnostics widened our gateway so that all who suffer might pass
             through, regardless of their belief or lack of belief.

             1.  Letter, 1954
             2.  A.A. Comes Of Age, pp. 162, 163, 167

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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.

The Fellowship started to grow, most particularly following the publicity we got in the Gazette in the spring of 1945.  I will never forget the day that Mary came to see me--she was the first woman to join our Fellowship here.  She was very shy and reserved, very low-key.  She had heard of the Fellowship through the Gazette.

p. 198

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         Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

Step One - "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable."

No other kind of bankruptcy is like this one. Alcohol, now become the rapacious creditor, bleeds us of all self-sufficiency and all will to resist its demands. Once this stark fact is accepted, our bankruptcy as going human concerns is complete.

p. 21

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          I will exercise patience, as God would, with all others.
          --Shelley

          "Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than
          genial breezes.
          Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits."
          --Samuel Butler

          AA is my anchor in a sea of confusion.

          AA brought me home when I had lost my way.

          Newcomer or long-timer, we are all the same in our need for each other.

          Think it over, not drink over it.

          "The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
          --Marcel Proust

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         Father Leo's Daily Meditation

          UNDERSTANDING

                                             "Intelligence is proved not by
                                                ease of learning but by
                                            understanding what we learn."
                                                   -- Joseph Whitney

          For years I learned things without understanding what the words, or the meaning behind
          the words, really meant. An example was alcoholism. Then a man said, "My name is Bill,
          and I am an alcoholic and a recovering human being!" Then it struck me; recovery from a
          drug --- alcohol --- was not simply about putting down the glass but about changing and
          developing a positive lifestyle as a human being.

          The same is true with spirituality. It is not about being religious, going to church or
          accepting dogma. It is about finding God in my life, discovering God in the decisions and
          actions I take and seeing Him in the world around me. Today I understand spirituality to
          be the link that unites all peoples and is centered on what is true and real.

          May I continue to search for the meaning within the word and the harmony of
          communication.

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          Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.
          Psalm 107:13

          "By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer
          to the God of my life."
          Psalm 42:8

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          Daily Inspiration

Waste no time on situations that aren't worth your precious time. Lord, may I recognize pettiness for what it is and move on so that my imagination doesn't take over and give pettiness more value than it deserves.

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From every right choice comes eternal benefits. Just as every wrong choice has eternal consequences. Lord, may our relationship grow deeper every day.

Ask and you shall receive,
Seek and ye shall find,
Knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Matthew 7:7

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