![]() We must learn how to act rather than react. ![]() Reaction isn’t action–that is, it isn’t truly creative. Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me to put my energy into working the Steps.Īction for the Day: Today, I’ll list what is right about the Steps for me. When we find ourselves wondering how to live, all we need to do is look to the Steps. Now we’re people with more than ideas that work. The ideas of the program have much promise because they’re simple. Who and what do we believe? We’ve fallen on a set of ideas that hold great promise: The Twelve Steps. We may feel loaded down with all these ideas. Everyone seems to have found the truth, and now they want to share it. You must find the ideas that have some promise in them…it’s not enough to just have ideas.Įach day we’re flooded with ideas. I’ll try to set a good example for others who may be seeking sobriety. Above all, we never have a right to break another’s anonymity. We have no right to pass judgment on such decisions. Nor is it wise to be critical of the AA member who prefers anonymity at every level. However, we must maintain anonymity at the public media level, and nobody has the right to violate another person’s anonymity. Why is it useful to let others know we belong to AA? Our best opportunities to help others may come from people who watched us in sobriety and were inspired by our example. However, this could reveal a lack of understanding and perhaps a lack of commitment to the program. They defend this zealous protection of their anonymity by pointing to the traditions. This might be the case with alcoholics who insist on concealing their AA membership from fellow workers, neighbors, and friends. Yet it is possible to use anonymity as a cloak for pride and fear. There is much wisdom behind Traditions Eleven and Twelve. Nobody can cause more needless grief than a power-driver who thinks he has got it straight from God.”Īt both the practical and spiritual levels, anonymity is a great blessing for the AA fellowship. “The minute I figure I have got a perfectly clear pipeline to God, I have become egotistical enough to get into real trouble. ![]() But I am fully aware, and humble enough, I hope, to see there may be nothing infallible about my guidance. “I am a firm believer in both guidance and prayer. I pray that I may meet the test of waiting for God’s guidance. The guidance will come, if I wait for it. Every work for God must meet this test of time. I will meet the test of waiting until a thing seems right before I do it. I will wait for guidance on each important decision. I will wait and trust and hope, until God shows me the way. I must depend on the Divine Power in all human relationships. Have I learned that drinking can never again be anything but trouble for me? But the time comes for all of us alcoholics when drinking ceases to be fun and becomes trouble. We can look back on a lot of good times, before we became alcoholics. Of course, all of us alcoholics had a lot of fun with drinking. ![]() Serenity and happiness have become much more important to us than the excitement of drinking, which lifts us up for a short while, but lets us way down in the end. When the morning sun comes up on a nice bright day and we jump out of bed, we’re thankful to God that we feel well and happy instead of sick and disgusted. member is permanent sobriety, achieved One Day at a Time. Whenever I stray from these basic principles, my old habits resurface and my old self also comes back with all its fears and defects. Regular attendance at meetings, service and helping others is the recipe that many have tried and found to be successful. How shall our unconscious–from which so many of our fears, compulsions and phony aspirations still stream–be brought into line with what we actually believe, know and want! How to convince our dumb, raging and hidden “Mr. Even then, as we hew away, peace and joy will still elude us.
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