A Prayer & Some Thoughts - October

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October 16

Self- Acceptance Prayer

Lord,
Starting today, help me to live my life being myself and not pretending to be someone else.
Help me to love and accept everyone else the way you created them.
Please give me wisdom enough, love enough and courage enough to seek your way, your truth and follow it in all I do.
Help me to remember that when I reject others, I reject myself and when I reject myself, I reject You.
Clean my mind of any emotional poison it has known through abusive words, actions of others and of myself.
Please help me to be happy to share my time with my loved ones and to forgive them for any injustice and hurt I feel in my mind.
Give me to love my family and friends unconditionally, to find better, loving ways to communicate with everyone, that there is no winner or loser.
Amen

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Just a Thought

We must be careful never to show intolerance or hatred of drinking.

Experience shows that such an attitude is no help to anyone. We are not fanatics or intolerant of people who can drink normally. Every prospect is relieved when he finds we are not witch burners. Temperate drinking is O.K., but we alcoholics can't get away with it. And no alcoholic likes to be told about alcohol by anyone who hates it. We shall be of little use if our attitude is one of bitterness or hostility.

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

Do I have a tolerance for those who can drink normally?

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Just a Contemplation

Humility

To see yourself as a good person is part of the program of humility. To see your gifts and recognize your achievements is what it is to be a humble person. "God does not make junk." Therefore, we should not act or behave towards ourselves in a way that would indicate anything other than that we are "special".

All alcoholics need to accept this because for years we had felt guilty, lonely and ashamed. These attitudes helped to keep us sick.

Sobriety and serenity is recognizing our God-given uniqueness that makes us "special". We can achieve great things as long as we continue to believe in ourselves.

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Perfection

I never have been and never can be perfect.
As that realization became a part of me -- and it took time -- it brought me one of the greatest of the many blessings that have come to me from AA. I learned to accept myself as a fallible human being.
I do not have to strive for perfection. Mistakes are permissible. I have the right to be wrong. And what a comfort that thought is to me, as I make my bemused way through life, one foot in a bucket, pushing on doors marked "Pull."

The Best of the Grapevine [Vol. 2], Pages 167-168

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Just a Quote

“Happiness is a choice, a repetitive one.” ~ Akilnathan Logeswaran