![]() ![]() ![]() It means I am ready to move ahead–that I have “passed” the current test.ĭr. Our present circumstances will begin to pinch.Ĭhange means growth. Patience, trust, and prayer are a winning combination when the time comes for us to accept a change. However, the best may not always “fit” when first we try it. Our higher power wants only the best for us, of that we can be sure. The program and its structure, and our faith in that structure, can ease the harsh consequences of change. We’ve had to change to cover the distances we’ve traveled. Retrospect allows us to see the good of the change, and we can see the necessary part each change has played in our development as recovering women. How certain we were that we wouldn’t survive the upheaval! Perhaps we lost a love or were forced to leave a home or a job. Most of us can look back and recall how we fought a particular change. … we do not always like what is good for us in this world. Help me live fully by putting my life in Your care.Īction for the Day: What kind of example do I set? Does my life reflect joy for life and recovery? Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, thanks for giving me energy and for healing my spirit. We remember them because they were so full of energy and spirit. True martyrs died for causes they believed in. These are the people who set bad examples. They play “poor me.” They want people to notice how much they suffer. They suffer, but sometimes not for a cause. Sometimes we call people “martyrs.” We sometimes think of them as victims. Nevertheless, we should be grateful that our friends in psychiatry have so strongly emphasized the necessity to search for false and often unconscious motivations.” “Spiritual growth through the practice of A.A.’s Twelve Steps, plus the aid of a good sponsor, can usually reveal most of the deeper reasons for our character defects, at least to a degree that meets our practical needs. Therefore we ought to look, with the deepest respect, interest, and profit, upon the example set us by psychiatry. Though uninstructed in psychiatry, we can, after a little time in A.A., see that our motives have not been what we thought they were, and that we have been motivated by forces previously unknown to us. It is the business of the psychiatrist to find the deeper causes for our conduct. I pray that I may rest safe and sure therein.Īs excuse-makers and rationalizers, we drunks are champions. I pray that I may be conscious of God’s support today. Be sure of God’s strength available to you, be conscious of His support, and wait quietly until that true rest from God fills your being. Commune with God, not so much for petitions to be granted as for the rest that comes from relying on His will and His purposes for your life. ![]() God’s everlasting arms are underneath all and will support you. Real relaxation and serenity comes from a deep sense of the fundamental goodness of the universe. “Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.” For rest from the care of life, you can turn to God each day in prayer and communion. In most cases, the change is gradual.” Do I see a gradual and continuing change in myself? We do no need to acquire an immediate and overwhelming God-consciousness followed at once by a vast change in feeling and outlook. This personality change is not necessarily in the nature of a sudden and spectacular upheaval. The nature of this change is evident in recovered alcoholics. By surrendering our lives to God as we understand Him, we are changed. Let us consider the term “spiritual experience” as given in Appendix II of the Big Book: “A spiritual experience is something that brings about a personality change. Am I putting anything before my sobriety, God, and A.A. I must always remember not to drink, to trust God, and to stay active in A.A. In sobriety my life gets better each day. Some of us have taken very hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job - wife or no wife - we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God.īefore coming to A.A., I always had excuses for taking a drink: “She said …, ” “He said … ,” “I got fired yesterday,” “I got a great job today.” No area of my life could be good if I drank again. ![]()
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