Mar 27 Possibilities - Transitions Daily Alcoholics Anonymous Recovery Readings Podcast

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This is Transitions Daily from March 27th, read by Kurt L. from Albuquerque, Mexico, USA.

AA Thoughts for the Day. Possibilities. How shall we come to terms with

seeming failure or success? Can we now adjust to either without despair or pride?

Can we accept poverty, sickness, loneliness, and bereavement with courage and serenity?

The AA answer to these questions about living is yes, all of these things are possible.

12 steps in 12 traditions, page 112. Thought to consider. It works. It really does. Alcoholics

Anonymous, page 88. Acronyms. Ego. Easing God out. Just for today, medicine from the three

legacies of Alcoholics Anonymous. The medical aspect of alcoholism includes the problem of

hospitalization, and here also great progress has been made. Many hospitals have been reluctant

to take alcoholics at all. State and provincial institutions usually have required alcoholics

to stay for long periods of commitment. Therefore, it has been difficult and still is to persuade

the average general hospital to take in AA prospects for short periods of treatment and to grant

sponsors the necessary visiting privileges in cooperation with our local inner group associations.

It is good to report that this condition is rapidly changing for the better. Our pioneering

activity in this field together with the use which AA headquarters has been able to make of that

experience has a special interest for us all. Two American hospitals have afforded fine

examples of how medicine and AA can best cooperate. At St. Thomas Hospital in Akron, Dr. Bob,

the wonderful sister Ignatia and the hospital staff presided over an alcoholic

ward which had treated several thousand alcoholics by the time of Dr. Bob's death in 1950.

And beginning in 1945, Nicarbocker Hospital in New York provided an AA ward under the care of

our first friend in medicine, Dr. William D. Silkworth, who was assisted with rare devotion and

skill by Nurse Teddy. By 1954, 10,000 alcoholics have been referred to Nicarbocker by the New York

Inner Group Association and had passed through this ward the majority on their way to freedom.

Alcoholics Anonymous comes of age page 206. Daily Reflections, AA's freedoms. We trust that we

already know what our several freedoms truly are that no future generation of AA's will ever

feel compelled to limit them. Our AA freedoms create the soil in which genuine love can grow.

Language of the Heart, page 303. I crave freedom. First, freedom to drink, later freedom from drink.

The AA program of recovery rests on a foundation of free choice. There are no mandates, laws,

or commandments. AA spiritual program has outlined in the 12 steps and by which I am offered,

even greater freedoms is only suggested. I can take it or leave it. Sponsorship is offered,

not forced, and I can come and go as I will. It is these and other freedoms that allow me to

recapture the dignity that was crushed by the burden of drink and which is so dearly needed to

support and enduring sobriety as Bill sees it. Room for improvement. We have come to believe that AA's

recovery steps and traditions represent the approximate truths which we need for our particular

purpose. The more we practice them, the more we like them. So there is little doubt that AA

principles will continue to be advocated in the form they stand now. If our basics are so firmly

fixed as all this, then what is there left to change or to improve? The answer will immediately

occur to us. While we need not alter our truths, we can surely improve their application to ourselves,

to AA as a whole and to our relation with the world around us. We can constantly step up the

practice of these principles in all our affairs. Great Vine February 1961. Big book quote.

We need to ask ourselves about one short question. Do I now believe or am I even willing to believe

that there is a power greater than myself? As soon as a man can say that he does believe or is

willing to believe, we emphatically assure him that he is on his way. It has been repeatedly

proven among us that upon this simple cornerstone, a wonderfully effective spiritual structure can be

built. Alcoholics anonymous, we agnostics page 47. 24 hours a day, AA thought for the day. You get the

power to overcome drinking through the fellowship of other alcoholics who have found the way out.

You get power by honestly sharing your past experience by a personal witness. You get power by

coming to believe in a higher power. The divine principle in the universe, which can help you.

You get power by working with other alcoholics. In these four ways, thousands of alcoholics have

found all the power they need to overcome drinking. Am I ready and willing to accept this power and

work for it? Meditation for the day. The power of God's Spirit is the greatest power in the universe,

our conquest of each other, the great kings and conquerors, the conquest of wealth, the leaders of

the money society, all amount very little in the end, but one who conquers oneself is greater than

one who conquers a city. Material things have no permanence, but God's Spirit is eternal. Everything

really worthwhile in the world is a result of the power of God's Spirit. Prayer for the day.

I pray that I may open myself to the power of God's Spirit. I pray that my relationships

with others may be improved by this spirit. Hazelton Foundation PO Box 176, Center City,

Minnesota, 551-2. My name is Kurt L. I'm an alcoholic. We hope you enjoy today's readings.

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