New Post on The Official Blog of The Way Out Podcast! Thoughts For The Day~*~Lessons ^*^*^ March 6

~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~^*^*^*^*^(\  ~~~  /)(     \(AA)/    )(_ /AA\ _)/AA\^*^*^*^*^Lessons "I find the willingness to give thanks by contemplating the lessons learned from past suffering--lessons which have led to blessings I now enjoy. I can remember how the agonies of alcoholism, the pain of rebellion and thwarted pride, have often led me to God's grace, and so to a new freedom. Bill W., Box 1980: The AA Grapevine, March 1962As Bill Sees It, p. 266   Thought to Consider . . .Remember that we deal with alcohol -- cunning, baffling, powerful!*~*AACRONYMS*~*TRUST = Try Relying Upon The Steps *~*^Just For Today!^*~*   Self-sufficient From "The Three Legacies of Alcoholics Anonymous": "At the Foundation, meanwhile, we had taken a significant action that was incorporated in these Traditions. In 1945 we wrote [our early supporters] Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the 1940 dinner guests that we would no longer need their financial help. The book royalties could now look after Dr. Bob and me; group contributions could pay the general office expenses. If these were insufficient, the reserve accumulated out of literature sales could meet the deficit. This meant that we had finally declared for full self-support. Since that time A.A.'s Board of Trustees has steadfastly refused outside contributions."2001 AAWS, Inc.Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pgs. 203-04 *^Daily Reflections^*THE IDEA OF FAITH Do not let any prejudice you may have against spiritual terms deter you from honestly asking yourself what they mean to you. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p.  47 The idea of faith is a very large chunk to swallow when fear, doubt and anger abound in and around me.  Sometimes just the idea of doing something different, something I am not accustomed to doing, can eventually become an act of faith if I do it regularly, and do it without debating whether it's the right thing to do.  When a bad day comes along and everything is going wrong, a meeting or a talk with another drunk often distracts me just enough to persuade me that everything is not quite as impossible, as overwhelming as I had thought.  In the same way, going to a meeting or talking to a fellow alcoholic are acts of faith; I believe I'm arresting my disease.  These are ways I slowly move toward faith in a Higher Power. Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC. *~*^As Bill Sees It^*~* Growth by the Tenth StepIn the years ahead A.A. will, of course, make mistakes. Experience has taught us that we need have no fear of doing this, providing that we always remain willing to admit our faults and to correct them promptly. Our growth as individuals has depended upon this healthy process of trial and error. So will our growth as a fellowship. Let us always remember that any society of men and women that cannot freely correct its own faults must surely fall into decay if not into collapse. Such is the universal penalty for the failure to go on growing. Just as each A.A. must continue to take his moral inventory and act upon it, so must our whole Society if we are to survive and if we are to serve usefully and well.A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 231Copyright 1967 Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc *~*^Big Book Quote^*~*We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day "Thy will be done." We are then in much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions. We become much more efficient. We do not tire so easily, for we are not burning up energy foolishly as we did when we were trying to arrange life to suit ourselves."Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th EditionInto Action, pg. 87 *^Twenty Four Hours A Day^*A.A. Thought for the DayIn A.A., we must surrender, give up, admit that we're helpless. We surrender our lives to God and ask Him for help. When He knows that we're ready, He gives us by His grace the free gift of sobriety. And we can't take any credit for having stopped drinking, because we didn't do it by our own willpower. There's no place for pride or boasting. We can only be grateful to God for doing for us what we could never do for ourselves. Do I believe that God has made me a free gift of the strength to stay sober? Meditation for the DayI must work for God, with God, and through God's help. By helping to bring about a true fellowship of human beings, I am working for God. I am also working with God because this is the way God works, and He is with me when I am doing such work. I cannot do good work, however, without God's help. in the final analysis, it is through the grace of God that any real change in human personality takes place. I have to rely on God's power, and anything I accomplish is through His help. Prayer for the DayI pray that I may work for God and with God. I pray that I may be used to change human personalities through God's help.Hazelden Foundation PO Box 176 Center City, MN 55012 ​​You have 2 Options to Participate in the Transitions Daily Email & Discussion Group:1.  Join the Private Announcement Only Google Group TransitionsDaily, send an email to TransitionsDaily@gmail.com with “Join” in the subject line.  You will be manually added to the closed Google Group TransitionsDaily.  IF YOU ALREADY RECEIVE THE DAILY TOPIC EMAIL, NO ACTION IS NECESSARY ON YOUR PART TO CONTINUE. 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