AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AA-Alive.net)
June 11, 2017
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A Lifetime Process
We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn’t control our emotional natures,
we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn’t make a living, we had a feeling of uselessness,
we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn’t seem to be of real help to other people. . .
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 52
Thought to Ponder . . .
Recovery is not an event; it is a process.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A A = Altered Attitudes.
A Member Shares:
Hi everyone, Craig an Alkie. When I first joined AA, I had no idea it was gonna be a life long process. It was not till about a year into AA that I started to realize this was going to be a process. A lifetime process. Back then, I started getting a basic routine down. I would wake up, say my Prayers to my Higher Power who I choose to call God. Thinking about the upcoming day, I would make a list in my head of the activities I was going to do for today. Call my sponsor sometime today, where and when are there AA meetings? I would go to from 1 to 5 AA meetings a day. I also by this time had gotten rid of all my buddies that I drank with. Actually it was in the first couple of months, that I realized I had to get rid of ALL my drinking buddies and their phone numbers on my beeper. I actually had trouble deleting their numbers, but I could not delete the names of my drinking buddies, so I ended up throwing my beeper away. LOL Saying my prayers in the morning and meditating. I'm not too good at meditation, but as the reading says, it's a life long process. I say prayers through out the day, and also praising and thanking my Higher Power who I choose to call God throughout the day. At night I say my night-time or bedtime prayers. In the beginning, I would get on my knees to pray, in the morning and at night. Today after several years, I have had 2 back surgeries and my knees are going bad. My Higher power lets me lay down to pray. If your back is going bad and/or your knees are about shot, if that's holding you back from praying, I suggest that you continue to pray but laying down. If I could get on my knees for a period of time to pray, I would, but I can't. That does not stop me from praying in the morning and at night.
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In grateful service,
peyton h
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