Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 12/18

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~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~




Miracle

And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone --
even alcohol.
For by this time sanity will have returned.
We will seldom be interested in liquor.
If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame.
We react sanely and normally,
and we will find that this has happened automatically.
We will see that our new attitude toward liquor
has been given us without any thought or effort on our part.
It just comes! That is the miracle of it.
c. 1976, 2001AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 84-5
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Thought to Consider . . .

Don't give up before the miracle happens.






*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
H O W = Honest, Open, Willing.

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*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*


Bill Undercover
AA History
Among the odd jobs that Bill cited in Bills Story� was his mention of working on a farm for a month. During 1925, Bill and Lois took off on a trip down the east coast inspecting companies to see if their stock might be good Wall Street investments. They camped up and down the coast and carried all of their belongings in the Harley-Davidson motorcycle and sidecar that Bill had purchased.

At the end of April 1925, they stopped at the Goldfoot family dairy farm in Scotia, New York near Schenectady. Mr. Goldfoot had two sons, both of whom worked for General Electric, a company that Bill was able to penetrate for investment investigation by befriending some of their employees during that month. They also worked for the Goldfoots to earn some money to continue on this most successful trip. Lois later acknowledged that she hadn't cared if they earned a cent on the trip. She had been hoping the fresh air and the hobo lifestyle would help Bill slow up on his drinking.

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*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
"Faith without works was dead, he said. And how appallingly true for
the alcoholic! For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his
spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could
not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead. If he did not
work, he would surely drink again, and if he drank, he would surely
die. Then faith would be dead indeed. With us it is just like that."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill's Story, pg. 14~

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




We see that the sun never sets upon A.A.'s Fellowship; that more than three hundred and fifty thousand of us have now recovered from our malady; that we have everywhere begun to transcend the formidable barriers of race, creed, and nationality. This assurance that so many of us have been able to meet our responsibilities for sobriety and for growth and effectiveness in the troubled world where we live, will surely fill us with the deepest joy and satisfaction.
But, as a people who have nearly always learned the hard way, we shall certainly not congratulate ourselves. We shall perceive these assets to be God's gifts, which have been in part matched by an increasing willingness on our part to find and do His will for us.

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Member Submitted Quote



I suffered from alcoholism in sobriety when the 'ism' stood for, 'I Sponsor Myself'. ( Wirt )

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12 x 12 Quote

"Sometimes AA comes harder to those who have lost or rejected faith
than to those who never had any faith at all, for they think they have
tried faith and found it wanting. They have tried the way of faith and
the way of no faith. Since both ways have proved bitterly
disappointing, they have concluded there is no place whatever for them
to go. The roadblocks of indifference, fancied self-sufficiency,
prejudice, and defiance often prove more solid and formidable for these
people than any erected by the unconvinced agnostic or even the
militant atheist. Religion says the existence of God can be proved; the
agnostic says it can't be proved; and the atheist claims proof of the
nonexistence of God. Obviously, the dilemma of the wanderer from faith
is that of profound confusion. He thinks himself lost to the comfort of
any conviction at all. He cannot attain in even a small degree the
assurance of the believer, the agnostic, or the atheist. He is the
bewildered one." (Twelve and Twelve, Step Two, pg. 28)

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Daily Reflections April 25

In the lastest stages of our drinking, the will to resist has fled. Yet when we admitt complete defeat and when we become entirely ready to try AA Principles, our obsession leaves usand we enter a new dimention-freedom under God as we understand him.. AS BILL SEES IT p. 283