Bluidkiti's Recovery ForumsRecovery LinksDaily Recovery ReadingsNA Just For Today Daily Spiritual MeditationsWeekly Spiritual ReadingsDaily PrayersAA Thought for the DayJuly 25 Humility Humility is not thinking less of myself than I ought to; it is acknowledging that I do certain things well, it is accepting a compliment graciously. God can only do for me what He can do through me. Humility is the result of knowing that God is the doer, not me. - Daily Reflections, p. 199 Thought to Ponder . . . Humility is not thinking less of myself, but thinking of myself less. AA-related 'Alconym' . . . A R T = Always Remain Teachable. Click here to read more Daily Recovery Readings - http://ift.tt/2a7wyXJ. Thoughts For The Day~*~ New Life "We die to live. That is a beautiful paradox straight out of the Biblical idea of being "born again" or "in losing one's life to find it." When we work at our Twelve Steps, the old life of guzzling and fuzzy thinking, and all that goes with it, gradually dies, and we acquire a different and a better way of life. As our shortcomings are removed, one life of us dies, and another life of us lives. We in AA die to live." 1955AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, 2nd edition., pp. 341-2 Thought to Consider . . . Life didn't end when I got sober -- it started. *~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~* T H I N K = The Happiness I Never Knew*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~* Accept My Humanness From: "A Nourishing Ingredient 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, page 74 How often do I focus on my problems and frustrations? When I am having a "good day" these same problems shrink in importance and my preoccupation with them dwindles. Wouldn't it be better if I could find a key to unlock the "magic" of my "good days" for use on the woes of my "bad days"? I already have the solution! Instead of trying to run away from my pain and wish my problems away, I can pray for humility! Humility will heal the pain. Humility will take me out of myself. Humility, that strength granted to me by that "power greater than myself," is mine for the asking! Humility will bring balance back into my life. Humility will allow me to accept my humanness joyously. 1990, AAWS, Inc., Daily Reflections, page 204*~*~*~*~*^ Grapevine Quote ^*~*~*~*~* "I did not know what real happiness was when I came through the doors of AA. I needed someone to teach me." One On One: AA Sponsorship in Action Greensboro, North Carolina, May 2003 "Shopping for a Sponsor,"*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book & Twelve N' Twelve Quotes of the Day ^*~*~*~*~* "On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self- pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. Under these conditions we can employ our mental faculties with assurance, for after all God gave us brains to use. Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 86~ "Liquor ceased to be a luxury; it became a necessity." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill's Story, pg. 5~ “Patience and good temper are most necessary.” -Alcoholics Anonymous p. 111 “Could we then foresee that troublesome people were to become our principal teachers of patience and tolerance?” -Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p. 141Misc. AA Literature - Quote While praying sincerely, we still may fall into temptation. We form ideas as to what we think God's will is for other people. We say to ourselves, 'This one ought to be cured of his fatal malady' or 'That one ought to be relieved of his emotional pain,' and we pray for these specific things. Such prayers, of course, are fundamentally good acts, but often they are based upon a supposition that we know God's will for the person for whom we pray. This means that side by side with an earnest prayer there can be a certain amount of presumption and conceit in us. It is A.A.'s experience that particularly in these cases we ought to pray that God's will, whatever it is, be done for others as well as for ourselves.Prayer for the Day: "Higher Power, grant me the wisdom to know the difference between what can be changed and what I must accept. Please help me gratefully accept the life I've been given."Click here to make a DonationThis is not spam. 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