AA Thoughts For Today - April

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AA Thought for the Day

April 29

Poison

If we were to live, we had to be free of anger.
The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us.
They may be the dubious luxury of normal men,
but for alcoholics these things are poison.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 66

Thought to Ponder . . .
"God save me from being angry. Thy will be done."

AA-related 'Alconym'
C A L M = Cause Anger Left Me.

~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~

Powerless
"Who cares to admit complete defeat?
Practically no one, of course.
Every natural instinct cries out
against the idea of personal powerlessness.
No other kind of bankruptcy is like this one.
Alcohol, the rapacious creditor,
bleeds us of all self-sufficiency
and all will to resist its demands.
But upon entering AA we soon take quite
another view of this absolute humiliation.
Our admissions of personal powerlessness
finally turn out to be firm bedrock upon which
happy and purposeful lives may be built."
Bill W., Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 21

Thought to Consider . . .
"Admission of powerlessness is the first step in liberation."
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 5

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Defects
Step Four: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
"To avoid falling into confusion over the names these defects should be called, let's take a universally recognized list of
major human failings the Seven Deadly Sins of pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth. It is not by accident
that pride heads the procession. For pride, leading to self-justification, and always spurred by conscious or
unconscious fears, is the basic breeder of most human difficulties, the chief block to true progress. Pride lures us into
making demands upon ourselves or upon others which cannot be met without perverting or misusing our God-given
instincts. When the satisfaction of our instincts for sex, security, and society becomes the sole object of our lives, then
pride steps in to justify our excesses."
1952, AAWS, Inc.; Printed 2005; Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pgs. 48-49

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Reality nourishes and fulfills.
July 2008
"Get Real,"
AA Grapevine

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"It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on
our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a
subtle foe. We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is
a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 85~

"We found that God does not make too hard terms with those who seek
Him. To us, the Realm of Spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive; never
exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek. It is open, we believe, to all men."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, Page 46~

In fact, the effectiveness of the whole A.A. program will rest upon how well and earnestly we have tried to come to “a
decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
-Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p. 35

Misc. AA Literature - Quote

On the Broad Highway
'I now realize that my former prejudice against clergymen was blind and wrong. They have kept alive through the
centuries a faith which might have been extinguished entirely. They pointed out the road to me, but I did not even look
up, I was so full of prejudice and self-concern.
'When I did open my eyes, it was because I had to. And the man who showed me the truth was a fellow sufferer and a
layman. Through him, I saw at last, and I stepped from the abyss to solid ground, knowing at once that my feet were on
the broad highway if I chose to walk.' LETTER, 1940

Prayer For The Day: Dear Lord, life seems so hard at times. Please be with me as I go through this day. Help me be strong and and give me the wisdom to handle each situation.