New Post on The Official Blog of The Way Out Podcast! [aarecoveryreadings] AA Thoughts For Today - 7/31

  Bluidkiti's Recovery ForumsRecovery LinksDaily Recovery ReadingsNA Just For Today Daily Spiritual MeditationsWeekly Spiritual ReadingsDaily PrayersAA Thought for the DayJuly 31 Stubbornness It is from our twisted relationships with family, friends, and society at large that many of us have suffered the most. We have been especially stupid and stubborn about them. . . We have not once sought to be one in a family. - Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 53 Thought to Ponder . . . Pride without gratitude is arrogance. AA-related 'Alconym' . . . P R I D E = Personal Recovery Involves Deflating Ego. Click here to read more Daily Recovery Readings - http://ift.tt/2a7wyXJ. Thoughts For The Day~*~ Half Measures "Remember that we deal with alcohol - cunning, baffling, powerful! Without help, it is too much for us. But there is One who has all power - that One is God. May you find him now. Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection and care with complete abandon." 1976AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 58-9 Thought to Consider . . . Take a walk with God. He will meet you at the Steps. *~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~* B O G G L E  =  Bad Or Good, God Loves Everyone*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~* Out of Self From: "Trying the Twelve Steps" It may be that problem drinking is, indeed, as some psychological experts say, an ailment characterized especially by egocentricity. Not all alcoholics are egotistical, although many of us have learned to see that tendency in ourselves. Others of us felt inferior most of the time; we felt equal or superior to other people only when drinking. No matter which type we were, we realize now that we were excessively self-centered, chiefly concerned about our feelings, our problems, other people's reactions to us, and our own past and future. Therefore, trying to get into communication with and to help other people is a recovery measure for us, because it helps take us out of ourselves. Trying to heal ourselves by helping others works, even when it is an insincere gesture. Try it some time. 1975, AAWS, Inc., Living Sober, page 84*~*~*~*~*^ Grapevine Quote ^*~*~*~*~* "Sometimes, the only place on earth that makes any sense to me is a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous." December 1979 "The Root of Our Troubles," Emotional Sobriety*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book & Twelve N' Twelve Quotes of the Day ^*~*~*~*~* "When you discover a prospect for Alcoholics Anonymous, find out all you can about him. If he does not want to stop drinking, don't waste time trying to persuade him. You may spoil a later opportunity." Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Working With Others, pg. 90  "We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree, and upon which we can join in brotherly and harmonious action." -Alcoholics Anonymous p. 17 (There is a Solution)   "Like all the remaining Steps, Step Three calls for affirmative action, for it is only by action that we can cut away the self-will which has always blocked the entry of God -- or, if you like, a Higher Power

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