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When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing. —Catherine Ponder— We are in constant communication with one another and with God in the spiritual realm. No matter how singular our particular course may appear, our path is running parallel to many […]
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Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race (may) commit suicide by blowing up the world. —Henry Adams— One hundred years ago, Henry Adams foresaw the plight we’re in today. Some observers believe that people in positions of power won’t be able to refrain from the awful destruction […]
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The Master doesn’t talk, she acts. When her work is done, the people say, “Amazing: we did it, all by ourselves!” Our Higher Power works like the Master. Quietly. In fact, we usually take the credit ourselves! We’re like the child who bakes cookies for the first time. Mother found the recipe, bought the ingredients, […]
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Have I got over most of my sensitiveness, my feelings which are too easily hurt, and my just plain laziness and self-satisfaction? Am I willing to go all out for A.A. at no matter what cost to my precious self? Is my own comfort more important to me than doing the things that need to […]
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AN OPEN MIND True humility and an open mind can lead us to faith . . . TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 33 My alcoholic thinking led me to believe that I could control my drinking, but I couldn’t. When I came to A.A., I realized that God was speaking to me through my […]
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Always I’ve found resisting temptation easier than yielding—it’s more practical and requires no initiative. —Alice B. Toklas— If temptation is easy to set aside, it can’t tempt us very strongly. The real, insidious temptations are the ones to which we yield unthinkingly: temptations to inertia, for example, or to stinginess or self-punishment. It’s part of […]
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Every child is an artist. The problem is remain an artist once your grow up. —Pablo Picasso— We each have colorful ideas waiting to be shared. We’re alive inside. But do we let this side of us show? Our disease stole much of the child like openness. Many of us were taught that growing up […]
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Pride, we are told, my children, “goeth before a fall” and oh, the pride was there, and so the fall was not far away. —Wilhelmina Kemp Johnstone— Requesting help. Admitting we are wrong. Owning our mistake in either a big or small matter. Asking for another chance or someone’s love. All very difficult to do, […]
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A DAILY TUNE-UP Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God’s will into all of our activities. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85 How do I maintain my spiritual condition? For me it’s quite simple: on a daily basis I ask my Higher Power to grant me the gift of sobriety for […]
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What am I going to do today for A.A.? Is there someone I should call up on the telephone or someone I should go to see? Is there a letter I should write? Is there an opportunity somewhere to advance the work of A.A. which I have been putting off or neglecting? If so, will […]