We have come to believe that A.A.'s recovery Steps and Traditions represent the approximate truths which we need for our particular purpose. The more we practice them, the more we like them. So there is little doubt that A.A. principles will continue to be advocated in the form they stand now.
If our basics are so firmly fixed as all this, then what is there left to change or to improve?
The answer will immediately occur to us. While we need not alter our truths, we can surely improve their applications to ourselves, to A.A. as a whole, and to our relation with the world around us. We can constantly step up the practice of "these principles in all our affairs."
Thank you for sharing this today, Jane. It seems as though once we feel like we can "rest" and are practicing the principles, events and experiences will come up that show us just how we do NOT practice those principles in some area. But this should not make us feel guilty or beat ourselves up, but that it keeps us humble and striving, for in humility we recognize and ACCEPT that we have faults and room to grow, and get every busier moving forward, laying guilt and perfectionism aside.
And.... your kitties in your picture are gorgeous!! Are they yours???
((((hugs)))) Joni
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~Your Higher Power has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
