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AA Thought for the Day
June 30 Our Insecurity The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another human being. Our egomania digs two disastrous pitfalls. Either we insist upon dominating the people we know, or we depend upon them far too much. If we lean too heavily on people, they will sooner or later fail us, for they are human, too, and cannot possibly meet our incessant demands. In this way our insecurity grows and festers. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 53 Thought to Ponder No God, no peace --- know God, know peace. AA-related 'Alconym' F R O G = Fully Rely On God. ~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~ Anonymity "We now fully realize that 100 per cent personal anonymity before the public is just as vital to the life of AA as 100 percent sobriety is to the life of each and every member. This is not the counsel of fear; it is the voice of long experience." 1957AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, p. 293 Thought to Consider . . . Walk softly and carry a Big Book. *~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~* A N O N Y M O U S = Actions, Not Our Names, Yield Maintenance Of Unity and Service. *~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~* Aware From "Bill's Story": "My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea. He said, 'Why don't you choose your own conception of God?' "That statement hit me hard. It melted the icy intellectual mountain in whose shadow I had lived and shivered many years. I stood in the sunlight at last." 2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth Edition; Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 12 *~*~*~*~*^ Grapevine Quote ^*~*~*~*~* "Today, there are hundreds of [AA] centers shedding their warm illumination upon the lives of thousands, lighting the dark shoals where the stranded and hopeless lie breaking up -- those fingers of light already stretching to our beachheads in other lands. "Now comes another lighted lamp -- this little newspaper called the Grapevine. May its rays of hope and experience ever fall upon the current of our AA life and one day illumine every dark corner of this alcoholic world." AA Co-Founder, Bill W., June 1944 "Editorial: The Shape of Things to Come" AA Grapevine (Volume 1, Number 1) Reprinted in The Language of the Heart *~*~*~*~*^ Big Book & Twelve N' Twelve Quotes of the Day ^*~*~*~*~* "...we then look at Step Six. We have emphasized willingness as being indispensable. Are we now ready to let God remove from us all the things which we have admitted are objectionable? Can He now take them all-every one? If we still cling to something we will not let go, we ask God to help us be willing." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 76~ "To get over drinking will require a transformation of thought and attitude. We all had to place recovery above everything, for without recovery we would have lost both home and business." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, To Employers, pg. 143~ "If you have already made a decision, and an inventory of your grosser handicaps, you have made a good beginning." -Alcoholics Anonymous p. 71 (How it Works) "Our inventory enables us to settle with the past." -Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p. 89 (Step Ten) Misc. AA Literature - Quote When we early A.A.s got our first glimmer of how spiritually prideful we could be, we coined this expression: 'Don't try to be a saint by Thursday!' That oldtime admonition may look like another of those handy alibis that can excuse us from trying for our best. Yet a closer view reveals just the contrary. This is our A.A. way of warning against pride-blindness, and the imaginary perfections that we do not posses. Only Step One, where we made the 100 per cent admission that we were powerless over alcohol, can be practiced with absolute perfection. The remaining eleven Steps state perfect ideals. They are goals toward which we look, and the measuring sticks by which we estimate our progress. Prayer for the Day: Today I will settle with the past in order that my Higher Power allows me to live fully in the present.
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