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DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.
-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 139
Twenty-Four Hours A Day
2)We who have learned to put our drink problem in God’s hands can help others to do so. We can be used as a connection between an alcoholic’s needs and God’s supply of strength. We in Alcoholics Anonymous can be uniquely useful, just because we have the misfortune or fortune to be alcoholics ourselves. Do I want to be a uniquely useful person? Will I use my own greatest defeat and failure and sickness as a weapon to help others?
As Bill Sees It
3)When I am feeling depressed, I repeat to myself statements such as these: “Pain is the touchstone of progress.” “Fear no evil.” “This, too, will pass.” “This experience can be turned to benefit.”
These fragments of prayer bring far more than mere comfort. They keep me on the track of right acceptance; they break up my compulsive themes of guilt, depression, rebellion, and pride; and sometimes they endow me with the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Quote From Melody Beattie
4) Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion to clarity. . . . Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.