Recovery Thoughts and Quotes - 4/18

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From "Coincidence?":

"Only a block or so from the pier, I saw a man approaching from the opposite direction, with his head down, walking into the rain. When he came to me, he stopped and smiled, and I recognized him as a priest I knew from home. I told him I was very ill. He then sat on a bench with me in the rain and assured me that in time all my troubles would pass and the day would come when I would understand them. He said I was not to do anything foolish, but ask God’s help, and somehow everything would work out."

© 1973 AAWS, Inc.; Came to Believe, 30th printing 2004, pg. 71

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AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AAOnline.net)

April 18, 2008

Expectations

Acceptance is the key to my relationship with God today. . .
I must keep my magic magnifying mind on my acceptance
and off my expectations,
for my serenity is directly proportional to my level of acceptance.
When I remember this, I can see I've never had it so good.
Thank God for AA!
© 2001 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 420
With permission, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder . . .

Expectations are premeditated resentments.


AA-related 'Alconym' . . .

A B C = Acceptance, Belief, Change.

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AA 'Big Book' - Quote

Now we go out to our fellows and repair the damage done in the past. We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of our effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves. If we haven't the will to do this, we ask until it comes. Remember it was agreed at the beginning WE WOULD GO TO ANY LENGTHS FOR VICTORY OVER ALCOHOL.' - Pg. 76 - Into Action




"Now we try to put spiritual principles to work in every department
of our lives. When we do that, we find it solves our problems too;
the ensuing lack of fear, worry and hurt feelings is a wonderful
thing."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 116~



"God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your
morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still
sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order. But
obviously you cannot transmit something you haven't got. See to it
that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come
to pass for you and countless others. This is the Great Fact for us."
Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 164

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote

Freedom through Acceptance

We admitted we couldn't lick alcohol with our own remaining resources, and so we accepted the further fact that dependence upon a Higher Power (if only our A.A. group) could do this hitherto impossible job. The moment we were able to accept these facts fully, our release from the alcohol compulsion had begun.
For most of us, this pair of acceptances had required a lot of exertion to achieve. Our whole treasured a lot of exertion to achieve. Our whole treasured philosophy of self-sufficiency had to be cast aside. This had not been done with sheer will power; it came instead as the result of developing the willingness to accept these new facts of living.
We neither ran nor fought. But accept we did. And then we began to be free.

GRAPEVINE, MARCH 1962

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12 x 12 Quote

"AA has many single alcoholics who wish to marry and are in a position
to do so. Some marry fellow AA's. How do they come out? On the whole
these marriages are very good ones. Their common suffering as
drinkers, their common interest in AA and spiritual things, often
enhance such unions. It is only where 'boy meets girl on AA campus,'
and love follows at first sight, that difficulties may develop. The
prospective partners need to be solid AA's and long enough acquainted
to know that their compatibility at spiritual, mental, and emotional
levels is a fact and not wishful thinking. They need to be as sure as
possible that no deep-lying emotional handicap in either will be
likely to rise up under later pressures to cripple them. The
considerations are equally true and important for the AA's who
marry 'outside' AA. With clear understanding and right, grown-up
attitudes, very happy results do follow." (Twelve and Twelve, Step
Twelve, pg. 119)

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Right Living

"Service gladly rendered,
obligations squarely met,
troubles well accepted or solved with God's help,
the knowledge that at home or in the world outside
we are partners in a common effort,
the fact that in God's sight all human beings
are important,
the proof that love freely given brings a full return,
the certainty that we are no longer
isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons,
the surety that we can fit and belong
in God's scheme of things -
these are the satisfactions of right living
for which no pomp and circumstance,
no heap of material possessions,
could possibly be substitutes."
Bill W., Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 124
As Bill Sees It, p. 254

Thought to Consider . . .

"I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine."
Bill W., Box 1980:
The AA Grapevine, Jan. 1958. The Language of the Heart, p. 238