It's very important to keep in a grateful frame of mind, if we want to stay sober. We should be grateful that we're living in a day and age when an alcoholic isn't treated as he often used to be treated before Alcoholics Anonymous was started. In the old days, every town had its town drunk who was regarded with scorn and ridiculed by the rest of the townspeople. We have come into A.A. and found all the sympathy, understanding, and fellowship that we could ask for. There's no other group like A.A. in the world. Am I grateful?
Meditation for the Day ~
God takes our efforts for good and blesses them. God needs our efforts. We need God's blessing. Together, they mean spiritual success. Our efforts are necessary. We cannot merely relax and drift with the tide. We must often direct our efforts against the tide of materialism around us. When difficulties come, our efforts are needed to surmount them. But God directs our efforts into the right channels and God's power is necessary to help us choose the right.
Prayer for the Day ~
I pray that I may choose the right. I pray that I may have God's blessing and direction in all my efforts for good.
Hazelden
(Let it be a God or Higher Power of your understanding)
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Progress not perfection.. & Practice makes Progress!
Hate to say it but whoever wrote this doesnt work in the health care field! I think we (not me in particular!!) are the most judgmental lot there is. Weve had patients who are "alcoholic" or on pain meds every hour/two hours and the comments are enough to make you cringe! Without giving up my own anonymity, I try to add a little understanding of the "disease" to these folks!
They just dont get it!!! Comments such as, "oh, its been two hours, so and so will be hitting their call light any second!!!!" are made. Very sad and I wish there was a specialty in nursing where those "addicts" are dealt with differently! It may just happen someday.
When those comments are shared you can guarantee, I will be the last one admitting to them just where or what I am!!!!!
AA is the greatest gift any of us can have because it is true, you find love and understanding in the rooms!!!
-- Edited by lani at 09:13, 2008-05-08
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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. "
