Hi, We still need help with our recovery sites expenses. This is not required of you, but is asked so that our recovery sites are and remain fully self supporting through members contributions and that we may continue to be able to provide help, support, fellowship and send out readings to those seeking recovery from addictions, to those already in recovery, and to family and friends of alcoholics and addicts. You may use this link Click here to make a Donation to make a donation or contact me by replying to this email for other options. Any amount helps even if it is just a couple of dollars. Thank you for your help and support! Have a great day! :-) Love, Tammy Bluidkiti's Recovery ForumsRecovery LinksDaily Recovery ReadingsNA Just For Today Daily Spiritual MeditationsWeekly Spiritual ReadingsDaily PrayersAA Thought for the DayAugust 8 Anger If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The grouch and the sudden rage were not for us. Anger is the dubious luxury of normal men, but for us alcoholics it is poison. - As Bill Sees It, p. 5 Thought to Ponder . . . Anger is the wind that blows out the light of reason. AA-related 'Alconym' . . . A A = Avoid Anger. Click here to read more Daily Recovery Readings - http://ift.tt/2a7wyXJ. Thoughts For The Day~*~ Growth "Regardless of worldly success or failure, regardless of pain or joy, regardless of sickness or health or even of death itself, a new life of endless possibilities can be lived if we are willing to continue our awakening, through the practice of AA's Twelve Steps." Bill W., AAGrapevine, December 1957 1967AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 8 Thought to Consider . . . AA is not something you join, it's a way of life. *~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~* G I F T S = Getting It From The Steps.*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~* Criticize Neither From: "Word of Mouth" In my view, there isn't the slightest objection to groups who wish to remain strictly anonymous, or to people who think they would not like their membership in A.A. known at all. That is their business, and this is a very natural reaction However, most people find that anonymity to this degree is not necessary, or even desirable. Once one is fairly sober, and sure of this, there seems no reason for failing to talk about A.A. membership in the right places. This has a tendency to bring in other people. Word of mouth is one of our most important communications. So we should criticize neither the people who wish to remain silent, nor even the people who wish to talk too much about belonging to A.A., provided they do not do so at the public level and thus compromise our whole Society Letter, 1962 1967, AAWS, Inc., As Bill Sees It, page 120*~*~*~*~*^ Grapevine Quote ^*~*~*~*~* "The word 'anonymous' has for us an immense spiritual significance. Subtly but powerfully it reminds us that we are always to place principles before personalities; that we have renounced personal glorification in public; that our movement not only preaches, but actually practices a truly humble modesty." AA Co-Founder, Bill W., January 1946 "A Tradition Born of Our Anonymity" The Language of the Heart*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book & Twelve N' Twelve Quotes of the Day ^*~*~*~*~* "'There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance that principle is contempt prior to investigation.'" ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Appendice II, Spiritual Experience, pg. 568~ "I suppose some would be shocked at our seeming worldliness and levity. But just underneath there is deadly earnestness. Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill's Story, pg. 16~ “The Wright brothers’ almost childish faith that they could build a machine which would fly was the mainspring of their accomplishment. Without that, nothing could have happened.” -Alcoholics Anonymous p. 52 “Since most of us are born with an abundance of natural desires, it isn’t strange that we often let these far exceed their intended purpose. When they drive us blindly, or we willfully demand that they supply us with more satisfactions or pleasures than are possible or due us, that is the point at which we depart from the degree of perfection that God wishes for us here on earth. That is the measure of our character defects, or, if you wish, our sins” -Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p. 65Misc. AA Literature - Quote As we made spiritual progress, it became clear that, if we ever were to feel emotionally secure, we would have to put our lives on a give-and-take basis; we would have to develop the sense of being in partnership or brotherhood with all those around us. We saw that we would need to give constantly of ourselves without demand for repayment. When we persistently did this, we gradually found that people were attracted to us as never before. And even if they failed us, we could be understanding and not too seriously affected. The unity, the effectiveness, and even the survival A.A. will always depend upon our continued willingness to give up some of our personal ambitions and desires for the common safety and welfare. Just as sacrifice means survival for the individual alcoholic, so does sacrifice mean unity and survival for the group and for A.A.'s entire Fellowship. Prayer for the Day: God, I'm standing at the turning point right now. Give me Your protection and care as I abandon myself to you and give up my old ways and my old ideas just for today. Amen.Click here to make a DonationThis is not spam. 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