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1. The only thing that matters is that he is an alcoholic who has found a key to sobriety. These legacies of suffering and of recovery are easily passed among alcoholics, one to the other. This is our gift from God, and its bestowal upon others like us is the one aim that today animates A.A.’s all around the globe.-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 151
2. An excuse is worst and more terrible than a lie.-Alexander PopeExcuses.
They’re lies. We use excuses to hide from ourselves. Maybe we don’t want to be honest about our anger. So we say someone else made us angry. Maybe we don’t want to admit how mean we can be. So we pretend we have no part in what happens. Excuses keep us from ourselves. They keep us from our High Power. A lot of our program is about looking at ourselves. Steps Four, Five, and Ten tell us to be honest about our excuses. We can be honest because we are good people. We are loved. ~Keep It Simple
3. Problems have only the size and the power that you give them.-S. H.
We will not be free from all difficulties today, or during any period of our lives. But we have the personal power to eliminate the threat, the sting of any challenge. But it’s our vision of circumstances that gives them their interpretation.
As we grow stronger emotionally and spiritually, we learn that all difficulties are truly opportunities for exceptional growth and increased awareness of the truth of existence.
We can let go of our problems. We can turn them loose and therein discover the solution. ~Each Day A New Beginning
4. Remember how it feels when we try to control someone else.
I was driving down the road one day behind a car that I decided was driving too slowly, I was
trying to mentally will him out of my way. I wanted him to move over and let me by. I observed myself, I wasn’t angry about this driver in front of me. I was angry because I was trying to control something that I couldn’t change.
God, help me be aware of the self-created drama in my life. Help me let go of my need to control. Give me the courage of my feelings. And help me be aware when my self-will is running riot. ~More Language Of Letting Go