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bluidkiti · 02-26-2021, 04:55 AM

February 26

Prayer for This Day

Lord, it is so easy to focus only on my needs, but I ask that You would bless those around me.
Please help my children, family and friends to see, feel and experience your love.
Please protect and heal my loved ones.
I thank You for the wonderful people I have in my life and I ask You to guide their paths this day.
Amen

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Just a Thought

We used to depend on drinking for a lot of things. We depended on drinking to help us enjoy things.

It broke down our shyness and helped us to have a "good time." We depended on drinking to help us when we felt low physically. If we had a toothache or just a hangover, we felt better after a few drinks. We depended on drinking to help us when we felt low mentally. If we'd had a tough day at work or if we'd had a fight with our husband or wife, or if things just seemed against us, we felt better under the influence of alcohol. For us alcoholics, it got so that we depended on drinking for almost every thing.

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

Have I got over that dependence on drinking?

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Just a Contemplation

Life's Lessons

"When the pupil is ready, the teacher appears."
Life's lessons often come unexpectedly. They come, nevertheless. Perhaps the teacher will be a loving relationship, a difficult loss, or a truant child. The time of learning is seldom free from pain and questioning. But from these experiences and what they can teach us, we are ready to learn. As we are ready, they come.

We all enjoy the easy times when the sailing is smooth, when all is well, when we are feeling no pain. And these periods serve a purpose. They shore us up for the lessons which carry us to a stronger sense of ourselves. To understand that all is well, throughout the learning process, is the basic lesson we need to learn. All is well. The teacher is the guide up the next rung of the ladder.

I will try to be grateful for my lessons today and know that all is well.

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Choices

Our necessities are certainly immense and compelling. Each of us must conform reasonably well to AA's Steps and Traditions, or else we shall go mad or die of alcoholism. Therefore the compulsion among most of us to survive and grow soon becomes far stronger than the temptation to drink or misbehave. Literally, we must 'do or die.' So we make the choice to live. This, in turn, means the choice of AA principles, practices, and attitudes. This is our first great and critical choice. Admittedly, this is made under the fearful and immediate lash of John Barleycorn, the killer. Plainly enough, this first choice is far more a necessity than it is an act of virtue.

The Language of the Heart Pages 301-302

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Just a Quote

“Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.” John Lennon

02-26-2021, 04:55 AM	#26
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 75,920	February 26 Prayer for This Day Lord, it is so easy to focus only on my needs, but I ask that You would bless those around me. Please help my children, family and friends to see, feel and experience your love. Please protect and heal my loved ones. I thank You for the wonderful people I have in my life and I ask You to guide their paths this day. Amen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Just a Thought We used to depend on drinking for a lot of things. We depended on drinking to help us enjoy things. It broke down our shyness and helped us to have a "good time." We depended on drinking to help us when we felt low physically. If we had a toothache or just a hangover, we felt better after a few drinks. We depended on drinking to help us when we felt low mentally. If we'd had a tough day at work or if we'd had a fight with our husband or wife, or if things just seemed against us, we felt better under the influence of alcohol. For us alcoholics, it got so that we depended on drinking for almost every thing. So ............ Have I got over that dependence on drinking? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Just a Contemplation Life's Lessons "When the pupil is ready, the teacher appears." Life's lessons often come unexpectedly. They come, nevertheless. Perhaps the teacher will be a loving relationship, a difficult loss, or a truant child. The time of learning is seldom free from pain and questioning. But from these experiences and what they can teach us, we are ready to learn. As we are ready, they come. We all enjoy the easy times when the sailing is smooth, when all is well, when we are feeling no pain. And these periods serve a purpose. They shore us up for the lessons which carry us to a stronger sense of ourselves. To understand that all is well, throughout the learning process, is the basic lesson we need to learn. All is well. The teacher is the guide up the next rung of the ladder. I will try to be grateful for my lessons today and know that all is well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Choices Our necessities are certainly immense and compelling. Each of us must conform reasonably well to AA's Steps and Traditions, or else we shall go mad or die of alcoholism. Therefore the compulsion among most of us to survive and grow soon becomes far stronger than the temptation to drink or misbehave. Literally, we must 'do or die.' So we make the choice to live. This, in turn, means the choice of AA principles, practices, and attitudes. This is our first great and critical choice. Admittedly, this is made under the fearful and immediate lash of John Barleycorn, the killer. Plainly enough, this first choice is far more a necessity than it is an act of virtue. The Language of the Heart Pages 301-302 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Just a Quote “Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.” John Lennon __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.