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AA Just For Today - "A Vision For You"

"Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to Him and to your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Give freely of what you find and join us. We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the Road of Happy Destiny."

© 2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth Edition; Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 164

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AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AAOnline.net)

May 5, 2008

Willingness

If we're willing to expose the pages of our lives to the love and understanding
of our Higher Power and a fellow alcoholic,
we'll surely know a new freedom and a new happiness.
We'll discover that love is never having to feel alone again:
That God's presence in our lives has become profound;
and that the unity of the Fellowship of the spirit
can be ours so long as we are willing to pass it on.
© 1998 The AA Grapevine, Inc., The Best Of The Grapevine [Vol. 3], pp. 200-01


Thought to Ponder . . .

Once we clear a hurdle, it doesn't seem so high.


AA-related 'Alconym' . . .

S W A T = Surrender, Willingness, Acceptance, Trust.

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AA 'Big Book' - Quote

We needed to ask ourselves but one short question. 'Do I now believe, or am I even willing to believe, that there is a Power greater than myself?' As soon as a man can say that he does believe, or is willing to believe, we emphatically assure him that he is on his way. It has been repeatedly proven among us that upon this simple cornerstone a wonderfully effective spiritual structure can be built. - Pg. 47 - We Agnostics



"Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic
member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of
his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to
most families who have lived with a drinker."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Family Afterward, pg. 135~



"Some drinkers have excuses with which they are satisfied part of the
time. But in their hearts they really do not know why they do it.
Once this malady has a real hold, they are a baffled lot. There is
the obsession that somehow, someday, they will beat the game. But
they often suspect they are down for the count."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, There Is A Solution, pg. 23~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote

'Admitted to God . . . '

Provided you hold back nothing in taking the Fifth Step, your sense of relief will mount from minute to minute. The dammed-up emotions of years break out of their confinement, and miraculously vanish as soon as they are exposed. As the pain subsides, a healing tranquility takes its place. And when humility and serenity are so combined, something else of great moment is apt to occur.

TWELVE AND TWELVE, P. 62

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Member Submitted Quote

When you remove the alcohol from the alcoholic, what you're left with is the 'ick'. When you remove the alcohol from alcoholism, what you're left with is the 'ism'. That is where the true work begins. And what a journey it is, second to none! Keep coming back! ( Spring )

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12 x 12 Quote

"Practicing Step Three is like the opening of a door which to all
appearances is still closed and locked. All we need is a key, and the
decision to swing the door open. There is only one key, and it is
called willingness. Once unlocked by willingness, the door opens almost
of itself, and looking through it, we shall see a pathway beside which
is an inscription. It reads: 'This is the way to a faith that works.'
In the first two Steps we were engaged in reflection. We saw that we
were powerless over alcohol, but we also perceived that faith of some
kind, if only in AA itself, is possible to anyone. These conclusions
did not require action; they required only acceptance." (Twelve and
Twelve, Step Three, pg. 34)

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Power

"We could wish to be moral,
we could wish to be philosophically comforted,
in fact, we could will these things with all our might,
but the needed power wasn't there.
Our human resources,
as marshalled by the will, were not sufficient;
they failed utterly.
Lack of power, that was our dilemma.
We had to find a power by which we could live,
and it had to be a
Power greater than ourselves."
Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 45

Thought to Consider . . .

Willpower ... our will-ingness to use a Higher Power.

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