Having learned to live so happily, wed show everyone else how. . . . Yes, we of A.A. did dream those dreams. How natural that was, since most alcoholics are bankrupt idealists. . . . So why shouldnt we share our way of life with everyone? TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 156
The great discovery of sobriety led me to feel the need to spread the good news to the world around me. The grandiose thoughts of my drinking days returned. Later, I learned that concentrating on my own recovery was a full-time process. As I became a sober citizen in this world, I observed a rippling effect which, without any conscious effort on my part, reached any related facility or outside enterprise, without diverting me from my primary purpose of staying sober and helping other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.
You are now reading from the book Twenty Four Hours a Day Hardcover (24 Hours)
A.A. Thought for the Day
The program of Alcoholics Anonymous involves a continuous striving for improvement. There can be no long resting period. We must try to work at it all the time. We must continually keep in mind that it is a program not to be measured in years, because we never fully reach our goals nor are we ever cured. Our alcoholism is only kept in abeyance by daily living of the program. It is a timeless program in every sense. We live it day by day, or more precisely, moment by moment - now. Am I always striving for improvement?
Meditation for the Day
Life is all a preparation for something better to come. God has a plan for your life and it will work out, if you try to do His will. God has things planned for you, far beyond what you can imagine now. But you must prepare yourself so that you will be ready for the better things to come. Now is the time for discipline and prayer. The time of expression will come later. Life can be flooded through and through with joy and gladness. So prepare yourself for those better things to come.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may prepare myself for better things that God has in store for me. I pray that I may trust God for the future.
Hazelden
(Let it be a God or Higher Power of your own understanding)
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Progress not perfection.. & Practice makes Progress!
Thanks for the reflection...As I was reading the daily reflection I am not sure I understand it correctly..does it mean that if an alcoholic topic should arise where ever I am at that point, should or could I put my 2 cents in, so to speak, and be okay with that? The reason I ask is only that I feel with all my heart that I should be able to speak my mind, give my fears to others and share my pain with them even if they are not alcoholic..I mean my God I don't think I know one person who doesn't know an alcoholic or has a family member who is one. Maybe that's just because I am one and I know so many...Idk. These are just my thoughts. Also I am getting away from my home group, not going to meetings, not drinking though and don't feel like it at all, but still everytime I go I feel like a scared little girl who shakes like she is detoxing (but not), I can't talk still because I am scared and know I will cry and I don't do that well. So I don't know I was just thinking and wanted to share. I love all the help that pores in, thanks to all.
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Don't tell God how big your storm is, tell the storm how big your God is!
Also I am getting away from my home group, not going to meetings, not drinking though and don't feel like it at all, but still everytime I go I feel like a scared little girl who shakes like she is detoxing (but not), I can't talk still because I am scared and know I will cry and I don't do that well.
So I don't know I was just thinking and wanted to share. I love all the help that pores in, thanks to all.