TOPICS:
March 18
1)Daily Reflections
REAL INDEPENDENCE
The more we become willing to depend upon a Higher Power,
the more independent we actually are.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 36
I start with a little willingness to trust God and He
causes that willingness to grow. The more willingness I
have, the more trust I gain, and the more trust I gain,
the more willingness I have. My dependence on God grows
as my trust in Him grows. Before I became willing, I
depended on myself for all my needs and I was restricted
by my incompleteness. Through my willingness to depend
upon my Higher Power, whom I choose to call God, all
my needs are provided for by Someone Who knows me
better than I know myself – even the needs I may not
realize, as well as the ones yet to come, bring me to be
myself and to help me fill the need in someone else that
only I am meant to fill. There never will be another
exactly like me. And that is real independence.
2) A.A. Thought For The Day
When alcoholics first come into A.A. and we face the fact
that we must spend the rest of our life without liquor, it
often seems like an impossibility for us. So A.A. tells us to
forget about the future and take it one day at a time.
All we really have is now. We have no past time and no
future time. As the saying goes: “Yesterday is gone,
forget it; tomorrow never comes, don’t worry; today is
here, get busy.” All we have is the present. The past is
gone forever and the future never comes. When
tomorrow gets here, it will be today. Am I living one day
at a time?
3) Prayer For The Day:
I pray that I may persistently carry out my spiritual
exercises every day. I pray that I may strive for peace
and serenity.
4) As Bill Sees It: pg. 77
Usually, we do not avoid a place where there is drinking–if we have a
legitimate reason for being there. That includes bars, night clubs, receptions and weddings.