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Welcome to the Transitions Daily Podcast. Transitions Daily is an online recovery group that
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offers a daily distribution of popular recovery resources accompanied by a secret Facebook
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group for discussion. We hope you enjoy today's readings.
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This is Transitions Daily for March 6th, read by Kurt L. from Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
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A.A. Thoughts for the Day. Lessons.
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I find the willingness to give thanks by contemplating the lessons learned from past suffering.
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Lessons which have led to blessings I now enjoy. I can remember how the agonies of alcoholism,
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the pain of rebellion and thwarted pride have often led me to God's grace, and so to a
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new freedom. Bill W. A. A. Greatvine, March 1962.
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Thought to consider. Remember that we deal with alcohol, cunning, baffling, powerful.
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Acronyms, trust, try, relying upon the steps. Just for the day, from the three legacies
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of alcoholics anonymous. At the foundation, meanwhile, we had taken a significant action
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that was incorporated in these traditions. In 1945, we wrote our early supporters, Mr.
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John D. Rockefeller Jr. in the 1940 dinner guests, that we would no longer need their
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financial help. The book royalties can now look after Dr. Bob and me. Group contributions
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could pay the general office expenses. If these were insufficient, the reserve accumulated
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out of literature sales could meet the deficit. This meant that we had finally declared for
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full self-support. Since that time, A.A.'s Board of Trustees had steadfastly refused
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outside contributions. Alcoholics anonymous comes of age, page 203, 204. Daily reflections,
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the idea of faith. Do not let any prejudice you may have against spiritual terms deter
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you from honestly asking yourself what they mean to you. Alcoholics anonymous, page 47.
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The idea of faith is a very large chunk to swallow, when fear, doubt, and anger abound
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in and around me. Sometimes just the idea of doing something different, something I am
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not accustomed to doing, can eventually become an act of faith if I do it regularly and
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do it without debating whether it's the right thing to do. When a bad day comes along
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and everything is going wrong, in meeting or a talk with another drunk often distracts
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me just enough to persuade me that everything is not quite as impossible, as overwhelming
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as I had thought. In the same way, going to a meeting or talking to a fellow alcoholic
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are acts of faith. I believe I am arresting my disease. These are ways I slowly move
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toward faith in a higher power. As Bill sees it, growth by the tenth step. In the years
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ahead, A.A. will, of course, make mistakes. Experience has taught us that we need have
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no fear of doing this, providing that we always remain willing to admit our faults and to
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correct them promptly. Our growth as individuals has depended upon this healthy process of
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trial and error. So will our growth as a fellowship. Let us always remember that any society
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of men and women that cannot freely correct its own faults must surely fall into a decay
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if not into collapse. Such is the universal penalty for the failure to go on growing. Just
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as each A.A. must continue to take his moral inventory and act upon it. So must our whole
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society, if we are to survive, and if we are to serve, usefully and well. A.A. comes
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of age, page 231. Big book quote. We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the
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show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day, die will be done. We are then in
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much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions when
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we become much more efficient. We do not tire so easily, but we are not burning up energy
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foolishly as we did when we were trying to arrange life to suit ourselves. Alcoholics
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anonymous into action, page 87. 24 hours a day, A.A. thought for the day. In A.A. we must
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surrender to give up, admit that we are helpless. We surrender our lives to God and ask him
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for help. When he knows that we are ready, he gives us by his grace the free gift of
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sobriety. And we can't take any credit for having stopped drinking because we didn't
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do it by our own willpower. There is no place for pride or boasting. We can only be grateful
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to God for doing for us what we could never do for ourselves. Do I believe that God has
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made me a free gift of the strength to say sober? Meditation for the day. I must work
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for God with God and through God's help. By helping to bring about a true fellowship
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of human beings, I am working for God. I am also working with God because this is the
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way God works, and He is with me when I am doing such work. I cannot do good work, however,
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without God's help. In the final analysis, it is through the grace of God that any real
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change in human personality takes place. I have to rely on God's power and anything
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I accomplish is through His help. Pray for the day. I pray that I may work for God and
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with God. I pray that I may be used to change human personalities through God's help. Hazard
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and Foundation, PO Box 176, Center City, Minnesota, 55-01-2. This is Kurt, I am an alcoholic.
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