Monday, August 8, 2016

New Post on The Official Blog of The Way Out Podcast! [aarecoveryreadings] AA Thoughts For Today - 8/7

  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 7 Truth Truth liberates.  Truth heals. Truth unlocks the door to the glory of reality, and gives us the means to live in harmony with reality. In return, it asks only that we surrender all lies and illusions and love what is. Why do we wait so long? - The Best of the Grapevine [Vol. 1], p. 138 Thought to Ponder . . . Truth is to inner space what sunshine is to a garden. AA-related 'Alconym' . . . A A = Always Aware. Click here to read more Daily Recovery Readings - http://ift.tt/2a7wyXJ. Thoughts For The Day~*~ Tolerance "Honesty with ourselves and others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way. Experience shows that few alcoholics will long stay away from a group because they don't like the way it is run. Most return and adjust themselves to whatever conditions they must. Some go to a different group, or form a new one. In other words, once an alcoholic fully realizes that he cannot get well alone, he will somehow find a way to get well and stay well in the company of others. It has been that way from the beginning of AA and probably always will be so." Bill W., Letter, 1943 1967AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 312 Thought to Consider . . . What does it benefit me to not like another human being? *~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~* H E A R T  =  Healing, Enjoying, And Recovering, Together*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~* Conviction >From "How It Works": "We reviewed our fears thoroughly. We put them on paper, even though we had no resentment in connection with them. We asked ourselves why we had them. Wasn't it because self-reliance had failed us? Self-reliance was good as far as it went, but it didn't go far enough. . . . "Perhaps there is a better way -- we think so. For we are now on a different basis; the basis of trusting and relying upon God. We trust infinite God rather than our finite selves." 2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth Edition; Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 68*~*~*~*~*^ Grapevine Quote ^*~*~*~*~* "The ideal of AA, however short we may be of it personally, is a thing of beauty and perfection. It is a Power greater than ourselves which has lifted us out of the quicksand and set us safe on shore." AA Co-Founder, Bill W., May 1946 "Safe Use of Money" The Language of the Heart*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book & Twelve N' Twelve Quotes of the Day ^*~*~*~*~* "Let no alcoholic say he cannot recover unless he has his family back. This just isn't so. In some cases the wife will never come back for one reason or another. Remind the prospect that his recovery is not dependent upon people. It is dependent upon his relationship with God. We have seen men get well whose families have not returned at all. We have seen others slip when the family came back too soon." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Working With Others, pg. 99~ "But my friend sat before me, and he made the pointblank declaration that God had done for him what he could not do for himself. His human will had failed. Doctors had pronounced him incurable. Society was about to lock him up. Like myself, he had admitted complete defeat. Then he had, in effect, been raised from the dead, suddenly taken from the scrap heap to a level of life better than the best he had ever known!" ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill's Story, pg. 11~ “Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times.  We might pay for this presumption in all sorts of absurd actions and ideas.  Nevertheless, we find that our thinking will, as time passes, be more and more on the plane of inspiration. -Alcoholics Anonymous p. 87 “Above all, we should try to be absolutely sure that we are not delaying because we are afraid.  For the readiness to take the full consequences of our past acts, and to take responsibility for the well-being of others at the same time, is the very spirit of Step Nine.” -Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p. 87Misc. AA Literature - Quote Do not let any prejudice you may have against spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself what they might mean to you. At the start, this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth, to effect our first conscious relation with God as we understood Him. Afterward, we found ourselves accepting many things which had seemed entirely out of reach. That was growth. But if we wished to grow we had to begin somewhere. So at first we used our own conceptions of God, however limited they were. We needed to ask ourselves but 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, even in this small degree, or is willing to believe, we emphatically assure him that he is on his way.  Prayer for the Day:  God help me to become willing to sweep away the debris of self will and self reliant living. Thy will be done for this person as well as for me.  AmenClick here to make a DonationThis is not spam. You are receiving this because you joined this list.Click here to receive Daily Recovery Readings in email.Click here to receive AA Thoughts For Today in email.Click here to receive Daily Prayers in email.Click here to receive Weekly Spiritual Meditations in email. **Click here to receive all 4 in email.***If at anytime you wish to unsubscribe then send an email to bluidkiti@bluidkiti.com with unsubscribe in the subject line.  Please note what you are unsubscribing from. If this message was forwarded by someone other than bluidkiti@bluidkiti.com, please reply to the person sending the email.

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