New Post on The Official Blog of The Way Out Podcast! Thoughts For The Day~*~Rewards ^*^*^ December 4

To Donate Go toTo Donate Go http://ift.tt/2fYnnWM. Thoughts For The Day~^*^*^*^*^(\   ~~   /)(    \(AA)/    )(_ /AA\ _)/AA\^*^*^*^*^Rewards"The rewards of sobriety are bountiful and as progressive as the disease they counteract. Certainly among these rewards for me are release from the prison of uniqueness, and the realization that participation in the AA way of life is a blessing and a privilege beyond estimate -- a blessing to live a life free from the pain and degradation of drinking and filled with the joy of useful, sober living, and a privilege to grow in sobriety one day at a time and bring the message of hope as it was brought to me."From the new Fourth Edition of Alcoholics AnonymousAA Grapevine, December 2001, p. 47Thought to Consider . . . Sobriety is a choice and a treasure. *~*AACRONYMS*~*G I F T S =  Getting It From The Steps. *~*^Just For Today!^*~* Gift Step Twelve: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. "When a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening, the most important meaning of it is that he has now become able to do, feel, and believe that which he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources alone. He has been granted a gift which amounts to a new state of consciousness and being. He has been set on a path which tells him he is really going somewhere, that life is not a dead end, not something to be endured or mastered."1952 AAWS Inc. Printed 2005Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pages. 106-07 *^Daily Reflections^*INTO ACTION A.A. is more than a set of principles; it is a society of alcoholics in action.  We must carry the message, else we ourselves can wither and those who haven't been given the truth may die. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 13 I desperately wanted to live, but if I was to succeed, I had to become active in our God-given program.  I joined what became my group, where I opened the hall, made coffee, and cleaned up.  I had been sober about three months when an old-timer told me I was doing Twelfth-Step work.  What a satisfying realization that was!  I felt I was really accomplishing something.  God had given me a second chance, A.A. had shown me the way, and these  gifts were not only free

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