Mar 06 Lessons - Transitions Daily Alochol Recovery Readings Podcast

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This is Transitions Daily for March 6th, read by Kurt L. from Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

A.A. Thoughts for the Day. Lessons.

I find the willingness to give thanks by contemplating the lessons learned from past suffering.

Lessons which have led to blessings I now enjoy. I can remember how the agonies of alcoholism,

the pain of rebellion and thwarted pride have often led me to God's grace, and so to a

new freedom. Bill W. A. A. Greatvine, March 1962.

Thought to consider. Remember that we deal with alcohol, cunning, baffling, powerful.

Acronyms, trust, try, relying upon the steps. Just for the day, from the three legacies

of alcoholics anonymous. At the foundation, meanwhile, we had taken a significant action

that was incorporated in these traditions. In 1945, we wrote our early supporters, Mr.

John D. Rockefeller Jr. in the 1940 dinner guests, that we would no longer need their

financial help. The book royalties can now look after Dr. Bob and me. Group contributions

could pay the general office expenses. If these were insufficient, the reserve accumulated

out of literature sales could meet the deficit. This meant that we had finally declared for

full self-support. Since that time, A.A.'s Board of Trustees had steadfastly refused

outside contributions. Alcoholics anonymous comes of age, page 203, 204. Daily reflections,

the idea of faith. Do not let any prejudice you may have against spiritual terms deter

you from honestly asking yourself what they mean to you. Alcoholics anonymous, page 47.

The idea of faith is a very large chunk to swallow, when fear, doubt, and anger abound

in and around me. Sometimes just the idea of doing something different, something I am

not accustomed to doing, can eventually become an act of faith if I do it regularly and

do it without debating whether it's the right thing to do. When a bad day comes along

and everything is going wrong, in meeting or a talk with another drunk often distracts

me just enough to persuade me that everything is not quite as impossible, as overwhelming

as I had thought. In the same way, going to a meeting or talking to a fellow alcoholic

are acts of faith. I believe I am arresting my disease. These are ways I slowly move

toward faith in a higher power. As Bill sees it, growth by the tenth step. In the years

ahead, A.A. will, of course, make mistakes. Experience has taught us that we need have

no fear of doing this, providing that we always remain willing to admit our faults and to

correct them promptly. Our growth as individuals has depended upon this healthy process of

trial and error. So will our growth as a fellowship. Let us always remember that any society

of men and women that cannot freely correct its own faults must surely fall into a decay

if not into collapse. Such is the universal penalty for the failure to go on growing. Just

as each A.A. must continue to take his moral inventory and act upon it. So must our whole

society, if we are to survive, and if we are to serve, usefully and well. A.A. comes

of age, page 231. Big book quote. We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the

show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day, die will be done. We are then in

much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions when

we become much more efficient. We do not tire so easily, but we are not burning up energy

foolishly as we did when we were trying to arrange life to suit ourselves. Alcoholics

anonymous into action, page 87. 24 hours a day, A.A. thought for the day. In A.A. we must

surrender to give up, admit that we are helpless. We surrender our lives to God and ask him

for help. When he knows that we are ready, he gives us by his grace the free gift of

sobriety. And we can't take any credit for having stopped drinking because we didn't

do it by our own willpower. There is no place for pride or boasting. We can only be grateful

to God for doing for us what we could never do for ourselves. Do I believe that God has

made me a free gift of the strength to say sober? Meditation for the day. I must work

for God with God and through God's help. By helping to bring about a true fellowship

of human beings, I am working for God. I am also working with God because this is the

way God works, and He is with me when I am doing such work. I cannot do good work, however,

without God's help. In the final analysis, it is through the grace of God that any real

change in human personality takes place. I have to rely on God's power and anything

I accomplish is through His help. Pray for the day. I pray that I may work for God and

with God. I pray that I may be used to change human personalities through God's help. Hazard

and Foundation, PO Box 176, Center City, Minnesota, 55-01-2. This is Kurt, I am an alcoholic.

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