AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AA-Alive.net)
December 4, 2013
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Turning Point
Remember that we deal with alcohol -- cunning, baffling, powerful!
Without help, it is too much for us.
But there is One who has all power -- that One is God. May you find Him now!
Half measure availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point.
We asked His care and protection with complete abandon.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 58-59
Thought to Ponder . . .
We were at the jumping-off place.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
G I F T = God Is Forever There.
A Member Shares:
I'm Kristina, an alcoholic. I am so grateful for this program. I always had God in my life, but booze was there too. They did not mix. I feared God and didn't trust Him. Through this program, I now have a personal relationship with God. I sought God and cried out for Him when nothing was left. My family was gone, my house was gone because I couldn't pay for it myself without my family here. I cried out to God, like they did in those old black-and-white alcoholic movies, "God Help Me!" Hoping He would, knowing He wouldn't. I was wrong. And I thank God I was. I was at the "jumping-off place" -- too afraid to live, too terrified to die. And I wanted to. I wanted the pain to stop. I did nothing but pray and drink, drink and pray. Something had to give. I went online to find an AA meeting. My dad had been in the program, but died drunk after being dry for many years -- suicide. So I knew help was there. I never regret my choice to come through those doors months ago. I ask for help in the morning and give thanks all through the day. God had done for me what I could not have done for myself, or any human power could have done. I live in the stream of God's grace now. Turning over every thing to Him. I pray about everything and worry about nothing. And for that, God bless God! Thank you for listening. My first time here.
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