AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AA-Alive.net)
November 27, 2016
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Becoming
I must look inside myself, to free myself.
I must call upon God’s power to face the person I’ve feared the most, the true me,
the person God created me to be.
Unless I can or until I do, I will always be running, and never be truly free.
- Daily Reflections, p. 107
Thought to Ponder . . .
Life will take on new meaning.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
H J F = Happy, Joyous, Free.
A Member Shares:
“Becoming” ... Like a caterpillar emerging from a chrysalis, yes? This wonderful person inside me, full of love and light and generosity, buried beneath the weight of my disease, the places it took me, the things that I did to let it thrive. I didn't have a choice then. I didn't know there was anything other than drinking. And I knew to drink the way I wanted to drink, the way I needed to drink, I had to be dishonest and selfish and self-centered. I could always feel that other person, the person I think of as the "real" me, struggling underneath. Flashes of inconvenient conscience pushed back under with another drink or three or five. When I reached the place where I absolutely could not continue, with or without alcohol, I was lucky that these rooms were here. No questions, no judgments, just open arms and understanding. When I went through the first three Steps and admitted that I was powerless and insane, and wanted God to take care of my will and life so I didn't have to be either anymore, I began to change. I found a freedom in my Fourth and Fifth Steps and a release of my defects in Six and Seven. I haven't become the person that I can be, the person I should be. So "becoming" is the perfect word. Every day I get a little closer to being the very best me that I can be. Every day I work the program, I grow in spirit and in my relationship with God. I keep practicing the principles so eventually I can get them just right. And, yeah, eventually, I'll emerge as a butterfly. Or at least a really cool moth. Thanks.
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