New Post on The Official Blog of The Way Out Podcast! [aarecoveryreadings] AA Thoughts For Today - 7/21

  Bluidkiti's Recovery ForumsRecovery LinksDaily Recovery ReadingsNA Just For Today Daily Spiritual MeditationsWeekly Spiritual ReadingsDaily PrayersAA Thought for the DayJuly 21 Meditation Meditation belongs and grows with daily life and daily growth, for it is in daily life that analytical thought binds us into the dilemma of opposites and consequently into sorrow, pleasure-seeking, and loss of freedom. In a life that may often seem onerous, boring, and senseless, meditation can free us to its beauty, its joy beyond pleasure, its passion beyond sorrow. - The Best of the Grapevine [Vol. 1], p. 172 Thought to Ponder . . . Meditation is our step out into the sun. AA-related 'Alconym' . . . T H I N K = The Happiness I Never Knew. Click here to read more Daily Recovery Readings - http://ift.tt/2a7wyXJ. Thoughts For The Day~*~ Defects "What we must recognize now is that we exult in some of our defects. We really love them. Who, for example, doesn't like to feel just a little superior to the next fellow, or even quite a lot superior? Isn't it true that we like to let greed masquerade as ambition? To think of liking lust seems impossible. But how many men and women speak love with their lips, and believe what they say, so they can hide lust in a dark corner of their minds? And even while staying within conventional bounds, many people have to admit that their imaginary sex excursions are apt to be all dressed up as dreams of romance." 1952AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pp. 66-7 Thought to Consider . . . If I want God to remove my character defects, I'll have to stop doing them. *~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~* B A T H  =  Behavior, Attitude, Thinking, and Habits*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*   Control the Situation From: "Bill's Story" Liquor ceased to be a luxury; it became a necessity. "Bathtub" gin, two bottles a day, and often three, got to be routine. Sometimes a small deal would net a few hundred dollars, and I would pay my bills at the bars and delicatessens. This went on endlessly, and I began to waken very early in the morning shaking violently. A tumbler full of gin followed by half a dozen bottles of beer would be required if I were to eat any breakfast. Nevertheless, I still thought I could control the situation, and there were periods of sobriety which renewed my wife's hope. 2001, AAWS, Inc., Alcoholics Anonymous, page 5*~*~*~*~*^ Grapevine Quote ^*~*~*~*~* "By the fall of 1937 we could count what looked like forty recovered members. One of us had been sober three years, another two and a half, and a fair number had a year or more behind them. As all of us had been hopeless cases, this amount of time elapsed began to be significant. The realization that we 'had found something' began to take hold of us. No longer were we a dubious experiment. Alcoholics could stay sober."  AA Co-Founder, Bill W., October 1945 "The Book Is Born" The Language of the Heart *~*~*~*~*^ 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~  "I knew from that moment that I had an alcoholic mind. I saw that will power and self-knowledge would not help in those strange mental blank spots. I had never been able to understand people who said that a problem had them hopelessly defeated. I knew then. It was a crushing blow." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More About Alcoholism, pg. 42~ "We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us. But it is clear that we made our own misery. God didn't do it. Avoid then, the deliberate manufacture of misery, but if trouble comes, cheerfully capitalize it as an opportunity to demonstrate His omnipotence." ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Family Afterward, pg. 133~  "We relax and take it easy." -Alcoholics Anonymous p. 86 (Into Action)   "His sponsor probably says, 'Take it easy.'" -Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p. 26 (Step Two)Misc. AA Literature - Quote Not all large decisions can be well made by simply listing the pros and cons of a given situation, helpful and necessary as this process is. We cannot always depend on what seems to us to be logical. When there is doubt about our logic, we wait upon God and listen for the voice of intuition. If, in meditation, that voice is persistent enough, we may well gain sufficient confidence to act upon that, rather than upon logic. 'If, after an exercise of these two disciplines, we are still uncertain, then we should ask for further guidance and, when possible, defer important decisions for a time. By then, with more knowledge of our situation, logic and intuition may well agree upon a right course. 'But if the decision must be now, let us not evade it through fear. Right or wrong, we can always profit from the experience. Prayer for the Day:  I pray for the ability to laugh and have fun, to take it easy today, and to not take myself so seriously.Click here to make a DonationThis is not spam. 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