Bluidkiti's Recovery Forums Recovery Links Daily Recovery Readings NA Just For Today Daily Spiritual Meditations Weekly Spiritual Readings Daily Prayers AA Thought for the Day January 14 Choices "Yet we finally did make choices that brought about our recovery. We came to believe that alone we were powerless over alcohol. This was surely a choice, and a most difficult one. We came to believe that a Higher Power could restore us to sanity when we became willing to practice AA's Twelve Steps. In short, we chose to 'become willing,' and no better choice did we ever make." - As Bill Sees It, p. 4 Thought to Ponder . . . I am worth staying sober for. AA-related 'Alconym' . . . S W A T = Surrender, Willingness, Action, Trust. Click here to read more Daily Recovery Readings - http://ift.tt/2mzlLsJ ~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~ Unity In many self-governing countries we are now seeing the inroads of ignorance, apathy, and power-seeking upon democratic systems. Their spiritual resources of right purpose and collective intelligence are waning. Consequently, many a land has become so helpless that the only answer is dictatorship. Happily for us, there seems little prospect of such a calamity in AA. The life of each individual and of each group is built around our Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. We very well know that the penalty for extensive disobedience to these principles is death for the individual and dissolution for the group. An even greater force for AA's unity is in the compelling love that we have for our fellow members and for the principles upon which our lives today are founded. Bill W. c. 1962 AAWS, Twelve Concepts for World Service, 26th printing, p. 8 Thought to Consider . . . Only those who see the invisible can accomplish the impossible. *~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~* P R O G R A M = People Relying On God Relay A Message *~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~* Quitting >From "More about Alcoholism": "Though there is no way of proving it, we believe that early in our drinking careers most of us could have stopped drinking. But the difficulty is that few alcoholics have enough desire to stop while there is yet time." 2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth Edition; Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 33 *~*~*~*~*^ Grapevine Quote ^*~*~*~*~* "The other day, I sent an AA friend on a job interview. He went to the wrong address and he lost the man's name. In another office, he stated his purpose, was offered a job, and came back with one better than the job I sent him to look for." Wayne, Pa., June 1984 "The Mysterious Ways of the Higher Power" AA Grapevine ~*~*~*~*^ Big Book & Twelve N' Twelve Quotes of the Day ^*~*~*~*~* "When ready, we say something like this: 'My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen.' We have then completed Step Seven." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 76~ "...with us, to drink is to die." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 66~ Where humility had formerly stood for a forced feeding on humble pie, it now begins to mean the nourishing ingredient which can give us serenity. -Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p.74 Misc. AA Literature - Quote The temptation is to become rather possessive of newcomers. Perhaps we try to give them advice about their affairs which we aren't really competent to give or ought not give at all. Then we are hurt and confused when the advice is rejected, or when it is accepted and brings still greater confusion. 'You can't make a horse drink water if he still prefers beer or is too crazy to know what he does want. Set a pail of water beside him, tell him how good it is and why, and leave him alone. 'If people really want to get drunk, there is, so far as I know, no way of stopping this - so leave them alone and let them get drunk. But don't exclude them from the water pail, either.' Prayer for the Day: Dear Heavenly Father, Please help me to control my attitude and to respond to others with love and kindness. I pray that my attitude reflects your character always. In Jesus name, AMEN! Click here to make a Donation This 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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