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AA Thought For Today - January
AA Thought for the Day
January 1 Hope Each day, somewhere in the world, recovery begins when one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic sharing experience, strength, and hope. - Alcoholics Anonymous, p. xxii Thought to Ponder . . . Modem-to-modem or face-to-face, AA's speak the language of the heart. Hope is the key that unlocks the door of discouragement. AA-related 'Alconym' . . . H O P E = Heart Open; Please Eenter. ~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~ Promises We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. Self-seeking will slip away. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us -- sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them. c. 1976, 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 83-4 Thought to Consider . . . It works -- it really does. *~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~* G R A C E = Gently Releasing All Conscious Expectations. *~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~* Seed Step One: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--- that our lives had become unmanageable. "It was then discovered that when one alcoholic had planted in the mind of another the true nature of his malady, that person could never be the same again. Following every spree, he would say to himself, 'Maybe those A.A.'s were right. . . .' After a few such experiences, often years before the onset of extreme difficulties, he would return to us convinced. He had hit bottom as truly as any of us. John Barleycorn himself had become our best advocate." 1952, AAWS, Inc.; Printed 2005; Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pgs. 23-24 *~*~*~*~*^ Grapevine Quote ^*~*~*~*~* "If humility can expel the obsession to drink alcohol, then surely humility can be our antidote for that subtle wine called success." AA Co-Founder, Bill W., October 1947 "Traditions Stressed in Memphis Talk The Language of the Heart ~*~*~*~*^ Big Book & Twelve N' Twelve Quotes of the Day ^*~*~*~*~* "We have three little mottoes which are apropos. Here they are: First Things First Live and Let Live Easy Does It." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Family Afterward, pg. 135~ "Remember that we deal with alcohol, cunning, baffling, powerful! Without help it is too much for us. But there is One who has all power that One is God. May you find Him now!" ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, Page 58~ In Step Eleven we saw that if a Higher Power had restored us to sanity and had enabled us to live with some peace of mind in a sorely troubled world, then such a Higher Power was worth knowing better, by as direct contact as possible. -Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p.109 Misc. AA Literature - Quote It has often been said of A.A. that we are interested only in alcoholism. This is not true. We have to get over drinking in order to stay alive. But anyone who knows the alcoholic personality by firsthand contact knows that no true alky ever stops drinking permanently without undergoing a profound personality change. We thought conditions drove us to drink, and when we tried to correct these conditions and found that we couldn't do so to our entire satisfaction, our drinking went out of hand and we became alcoholics. It never occurred to us that we needed to change ourselves to meet conditions, whatever they were. Prayer for the Day: God, I offer myself to Thee To build with me & to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy love & Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always.
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