![]() ![]() We have a supporting role in one another’s lives. When we think if only we were prettier, smarter, had a better job, then we’d be happy, we are giving in to corruptions. Our corruptions interfere with our happiness at the very time we are seeking happiness. The first nuance of difference, the first need to feel better than the different one, more loved, stronger, richer, more blessed–these are corruptions. The first fear is a corruption, the first reaching for something that defies us. ![]() I’ll be okay when more changes come, with God’s help. Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me believe that Your plans call for good changes.Īction for the Day: Today I’ll think about the changes in my life. When we ask, our Higher Power will teach us to be part of good changes. We get it by listening, by praying, by meditating. Changes means we’re always beginners in some ways. There are always new things to do and learn. Just when our life seems settled, it changes. But one thing is for sure: it keeps on happening. The reality is that changes are coming … they must come. Around difficult people, I’ll remember that God’s love is always present with us. I’ll try to practice the nine ingredients that make up love. If love is present in our AA activities, it will cover a multitude of sins and will make up for many other shortcomings. Love acts the part, and even people who cannot define love will respond to it. They will see the change in our own lives and will be attracted by it. If we are practicing the elements of love or goodwill, we won’t have to sing about it or tell people what we’re doing. And if we are uncomfortable with love as a word, we can call it goodwill. It has been fashionable in recent years to talk and sing about love as something the world needs, and we have an opportunity to practice love when we strengthen the qualities that make us loving people. Growth in sobriety includes improvement in all the nine ingredients that make up love. Drummond called love the “greatest thing in the world.” Finally, it is also good temper, gentleness, and sincerity. Love is patience, kindness, and generosity it is humility, courtesy, and unselfishness. In a famous sermon, Henry Drummond described love as a spectrum with nine ingredients. Let’s keep it simple!” I turned away, unable to say a word. The old, broad smile was on his face as he said almost jokingly, “Remember, Bill, let’s not louse this thing up. Bob, knowing that he was to undergo a serious operation. For this, I can thankfully say that the credit was all his.” “In all the stress and strain of A.A.’s pioneering time, no hard word ever passed between us. Thomas Hospital in Akron, he–without charge–medically treated and spiritually infused five thousand sufferers. Assisted by the incomparable Sister Ignatia at St. vocation and achieved a record which, in quantity and in quality, none will ever surpass. As the physician and great human being he was, he chose work with others as his prime A.A. Bob was my constant companion and partner in the great A.A. I pray that my faith may grow because with faith God’s power becomes available to me. I pray that I may so think and live as to feed my faith in God. Therefore, I will work at strengthening my faith. God gives it to me in response to my prayers, because it is a necessary weapon for me to possess for the overcoming of all adverse conditions and the accomplishments of all good in my life. On faith alone depends the answer to my prayers. I will pray daily for faith, for it is God’s gift. Am I building a new life on the foundation of sobriety? Building a new life is a slow process, but it can be done if we really follow the A.A. Anyone who tries it, knows that the old alcoholic thinking is apt to come back on us when we least expect it. ![]() We have to get used to sober thinking instead of alcoholic thinking. Our subconscious minds have to be re-educated. We have to take the program slowly, a little at a time. Such a feeling of control is fatal to my recovery. I cannot afford to believe that I have gained control of my drinking – or again I will think I have gained control of my life. But the numbing did not improve the situation, so I sought further escape in the bottle. ![]() The smallest incident triggered a state of mind that believed I had to have a drink to numb my feelings. When I was still drinking, I couldn’t respond to any of life’s situations the way other, more healthy, people could. By going back in our drinking histories, we could show that years before we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking even then was no mere habit, that was indeed the beginning of a fatal progression. ![]()
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