A Prayer & Some Thoughts - March

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March 23


Embracing Differences Prayer

God, help us be gracious to one another regarding areas where we are very different.
Assist us to appreciate that we don’t need to have the same personality or the same preferences in everything.
Help us recognize that a happy relationship is one in which the other person completes you –
and often that requires different strengths, different abilities, and different ways of looking at things.
Teach us to accept the other for the wonderful person they are.
Amen

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Just a Thought

We have this choice every day of our lives.

We can take the path that leads to insanity and death. And remember, our next drunk could be our last one. Or we can take the path that leads to a reasonably happy and useful life. The choice is ours each day of our lives. God grant that we take the right path.

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

Have I made my choice today?

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Just a Contemplation

Choices

The day ahead offers us choices of many kinds - some big ones, many that will affect other persons close to us, a few that will have profound effects on our destiny. But no choice, no decision we make, will be wrong. A particular decision may lead us slightly astray. Down a dead-end path perhaps - but we can always turn back and choose again.

We are seldom aware of the gravity of a particular choice at the time of making it. Only hindsight reveals the wisdom of an important choice. Nevertheless, no choice is without importance in the overall picture of our lives. And at the same time, no choice is all-powerful regarding our destiny. We are offered chances again and again for making the right choices, the ones that will most contribute to the bigger plan for our lives.

I need not worry about today's opportunities for decision-making. I will listen to those around me. I will seek guidance in the messages coming to me. I will make the choices I need to, today.

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Character Defects

If I drew a line between active alcoholism on one side and life as God wants me to live and has equipped me to on the other, then I'm somewhere in the middle, striving toward the ideal. If I allow my character defects to rule my life again and forget the AA program, forget where the power to change for the better comes from, I will, in the long run, inevitably drink again.

The Best of the Grapevine [Vol. 3], Page 187

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Just a Quote

“Acceptance doesn’t mean that life gets better; it just means that my way of living life on life’s terms improves.” ~ Sharon E. Rainey