New Post on The Official Blog of The Way Out Podcast! Thoughts For The Day~*~Gratitude ^*^*^ October 7

~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~ ^*^*^*^*^(\    ~~    /)(     \(AA)/     )(_ /AA\ _)/AA\^*^*^*^*^Gratitude"Another exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings and then for a right acceptance of the many gifts that are mine -- both temporal and spiritual. . . I try to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion that we can ever know."  Bill. W., March 1962 c.1988AAGrapevine, The Language of the Heart, p. 271 Thought to Consider . . . I have learned what a heart full of gratitude feels like.*~*AACRONYMS*~*H J F  =  Happy, Joyous, and Free *~*^Just For Today!^*~*   Best of Intentions Step Eleven: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.  Of course, it is reasonable and understandable that the question is often asked: "Why can't we take a specific and troubling dilemma straight to God, and in prayer secure from Him sure and definite answers to our requests?" This can be done, but it has hazards. We have seen AAs ask with much earnestness and faith for God's explicit guidance on matters ranging all the way from a shattering domestic or financial crisis to correcting a minor personal fault, like tardiness. Quite often, however, the thoughts that seem to come from God are not answers at all. They prove to be well-intentioned unconscious rationalizations. The AA, or indeed any man, who tries to run his life rigidly by this kind of prayer, by this self-serving demand of God for replies, is a particularly disconcerting individual. To any questioning or criticism of his actions he instantly proffers his reliance upon prayer for guidance in all matters great or small. He may have forgotten the possibility that his own wishful thinking and the human tendency to rationalize have distorted his so-called guidance. With the best of intentions, he tends to force his own will into all sorts of situations and problems with the comfortable assurance that he is acting under God's specific direction. Under such an illusion, he can of course create great havoc without in the least intending it. 1981 AAWS Inc.Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pages 103-104 *^Daily Reflections^*DAILY MONITORINGContinued to take personal inventory . . .TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 88The spiritual axiom referred to in the Tenth Step

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