The A.A. program is one of charity because the real meaning of the word charity is to care enough about other people to really want to help them. To get the full benefit of the program, we must try to help other alcoholics. We may try to help some body and think we have failed, but the seed we have planted may bear fruit some time. We never know the results even a word of ours might have. But the main thing is to have charity for others, a real desire to help them, whether we succeed or not. Do I have real charity?
Meditation for the Day ~
All material things, the universe, the world, even our bodies, may be Eternal Thought expressed in time and space. The more the physicists and astronomers reduce matter; the more it becomes a mathematical formula, which is thought. In the final analysis, matter is thought. When Eternal Thought expresses itself within the framework of space and time, it becomes matter. Our thoughts, within the box of space and time, cannot know anything firsthand, except material things. But we can deduce that outside the box of space and time is Eternal Thought, which we can call God.
Prayer for the Day ~
I pray that I may be a true expression of Eternal Thought. I pray that God's thoughts may work through my thoughts.
Hazelden
(Let it be a God or Higher Power of your own understanding)
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Progress not perfection.. & Practice makes Progress!
By helping others we certainly do help ourselves. Was at a great meeting last night, never had been there before and lots of good, longterm sobriety there. A new guy came in and shared. Admitted he had been drinking before the meeting but reached out for help. One guy brought tears to my eyes . He genuinly shared that he was there for this man and invited him to a mens meeting the next day. The words he spoke were so cool because you could feel him reaching out to help this new guy! Wow!!!! Thats what its all about!!!!!!!
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"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. "
