Recovery Thoughts and Quotes 4/21

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AA Just For Today

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From "To Employers":

"This is not to say that all alcoholics are honest and upright when not drinking. Of course that isn’t so, and such people often may impose on you. Seeing your attempt to understand and help, some men will try to take advantage of your kindness. If you are sure your man does not want to stop, he may as well be discharged, the sooner the better. You are not doing him a favor by keeping him on. Firing such an individual may prove a blessing to him. It may be just the jolt he needs."

Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 141

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AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AAOnline.net)

April 21, 2008

Change

How many of us would presume to declare,
"Well, I'm sober and I'm happy. What more can I want or do?
I'm fine the way I am."
We know that the price of such self-satisfaction is an inevitable back-slide,
punctured at some point by a very rude awakening.
We have to grow or else deteriorate.
For us, the status quo can only be for today, never for tomorrow.
Change we must; we cannot stand still.
© 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 25
With permission, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder . . .

If I don't change, my sobriety date will.


AA-related 'Alconym' . . .

A B C = Acceptance, Belief, Change.

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AA 'Big Book' - Quote

For most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship and colorful imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good. But not so with us in those last days of heavy drinking. - Pg. 151 - A Vision For You



"When drinking, or getting over a bout, an alcoholic, sometimes the
model of honesty when normal, will do incredible things. Afterward,
his revulsion will be terrible. Nearly always, these antics indicate
nothing more than temporary conditions."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 140~



"Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness. We
must, or it kill us! God makes that possible. And there often seems
no way of entirely getting rid of self without His aid. Many of us
had moral and philosophical convictions galore, but we could not live
up to them even though we would have liked to."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 62~

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12 x 12 Quote

"Upon entering AA, these attitudes were sharply reversed, often going
much too far in the opposite direction. The spectacle of years of
waste threw us into panic. There simply wouldn't be time, we thought,
to rebuild our shattered fortunes. How could we ever take care of
those awful debts, possess a decent home, educate the kids, and set
something by for old age? Financial importance was no longer our
principal aim; we now clamored for material security. Even when we
were well reestablished in our business, these terrible fears often
continued to haunt us. This made us misers and penny pinchers all
over again. Complete financial security we must have--or else. We
forgot that most alcoholics in AA have an earning power considerably
above average; we forgot the immense goodwill of our brother AA's who
were only too eager to help us to better jobs when we deserved them;
we forgot the actual or potential financial insecurity of every human
being in the world. And, worst of all, we forgot God. In money
matters we had faith only in ourselves, and not too much of that."
(Twelve and Twelve, Step Twelve, pg. 120)

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Prayer

"Common sense would thus become uncommon sense.
I was to sit quietly when in doubt,
asking only for direction and strength
to meet my problems as He would have me.
Never was I to pray for myself,
except as my requests bore on my
usefulness to others.
Then only might I expect to receive.
But that would be in great measure."

Bill W., Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 13

Thought to Consider . . .

I listen for direction now.


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H O P E = Hang On, Pray Everyday