We recovered alcoholics are not so much brothers in virtue as we are brothers in our defects, and in our common strivings to overcome them. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 167
The identification that one alcoholic has with another is mysterious, spiritualalmost incomprehensible. But it is there. I feel it. Today I feel that I can help people and that they can help me. It is a new and exciting feeling for me to care for someone; to care what they are feeling, hoping for, praying for; to know their sadness, joy, horror, sorrow, grief; to want to share those feelings so that someone can have relief. I never knew how to do thisor how to try. I never even cared. The Fellowship of A.A., and God, are teaching me how to care about others.
A.A. Thought for the Day
Since I've been putting sobriety into my life, I've been taking out a lot of good things. I can describe it best as a kind of quiet satisfaction. I feel good. I feel right with the world, on the right side of the fence. As long as I put sobriety into my life, almost everything I take out is good. The satisfaction you get out of living a sober life is made up of a lot of little things. You have the ambition to do things you didn't feel like doing when you were drinking. Am I getting satisfaction out of living a sober life?
Meditation for the Day
It is a glorious way - the upward way. There are wonderful discoveries in the realm of the spirit. There are tender intimacies in the quiet times of communion with God. There is an amazing, almost incomprehensible understanding of the other person. On the upward way, you can have all the strength you need from that Higher Power. You cannot make too many demands on Him for strength. He gives you all the power you need, as long as you are moving along the upward way.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may see the beautiful horizons ahead on the upward way. I pray that I may keep going forward to the more abundant life.
Hazelden
(Let it be a God or Higher Power of your own understanding)
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Thankyou so much for being here. I've never believed that you were here for me, when people said, thanks for being here for me at the end of their shares. But thanks for being here fullstop. Because it has given me somewhere I can come and be supported and loved and given hope.
I don't have the words to encapsulate how much I love you people in this fellowship.
And you always & today. You Jamie, Both of you, & All of You Today. I send a prayer of thanks & gratitude today, Good Friday.. Your Sister in Sobriety, Danielle x
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