AA Thought for the Day
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December 14, 2016
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Resentment
“If you have a resentment you want to be free of, if you will pray for the person
or the thing that you resent, you will be free.
Ask for their health, their prosperity, their happiness, and you will be free.
Even when you don’t really want it for them and your prayers are only words
and you don’t mean it, go ahead and do it anyway.
Do it every day for two weeks, and you will find you have come to mean it
and to want it for them, and you will realize
that where you used to feel bitterness, and resentment and hatred,
you now feel compassionate understanding and love.”
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 552
Thought to Ponder . . .
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
H J F = Happy, Joyous, Free.
A Member Shares:
Mab, here, alcoholic. No happy sobriety or any life can be achieved if filled with resentments. No matter, that they may be justified. Almost invariably, we had a part in the creation of wrongs done against us. Forgiveness is the answer, it is said, even if we cannot understand what happened. And forgiveness for ourselves for being naturally resentful is included. But letting go of the hurt is key. Give it to the Higher Power, who sees our hurt, and has the power to bring good growth, healing, and learning from even the most horrific experience. My grandmother always told me that even the meanest kid on the block had a hurting heart and was loved by the Creator. I doubted that at the time, but believed my grandmother made it so with her own loving heart vibrating out to a hurting world. There have been 2 or 3 killing resentments that practically crippled me in the past, and revenge, payback, restitution were not possible luckily, but that made the resentment hurt even more. So finally to save my sanity, I had to follow AA advice from “Freedom From Bondage" in the Big Book. I found that relief can be found even if we are not willing to release the resentment. Using pages 551-552 and praying for all good to come to the offender worked for me. I was amazed, instead of taking 2 weeks, my heart was healed in 3 days despite myself. I didn’t even have to seek compassion or forgiveness; it just came from the Bountiful One, a cloud of blessed release from inner pain. Try it. If it could work for me, it can for you. Thanks.
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