Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me always remember how my illness almost destroyed me. That way, we’ll make recovery grow stronger One Day at a Time. Most of us had a poor relationships with friends, family, and ourselves. Why? So we don’t act and think like addicts. Why? So we can remember how our recovery began. We need to remember the power that our illness has over us. “We are healed of a suffering only be experiencing it in full.” Our sobriety, however, is a separate type of gift that we did not create. We can feel grateful for mental abilities and education that help us get along in the world. They are also wise enough to know that nobody can outsmart John Barleycorn.

It can be a barrier to the simple acceptance and surrender needed for success in the 12 Step Program.

In fact, pride in such gifts can be a stumbling block. In the same way, the very smart person, has no edge over others in gaining sobriety. We could never believe that being smart would give us an advantage in dealing with such an illness. Diabetes, for example, victimizes people of all intelligence and education levels. But I’ve met a few people who were too smart.” These wise words by an older member sum up what we sometimes see … people who feel turned off by the program because it seems too simple and involves so many people of ordinary education and backgrounds.Īlcoholism is much like other diseases in the way it strikes all people. “I’ve never seen anybody who’s too dumb to stay sober. in action calls for the sacrifice of much time and a little money. Right then and there, Ebby established the principle that A.A. One without the other would have amounted to nothing at all. At the level of the telephone booth and subway turnstile, spirituality and money began to mix. He called me on the phone and then got into the subway total cost, ten cents. His resolve was not enough he had to take action and he had to spend money. When Ebby heard how serious my drinking was, he resolved to visit me. Some of us still ask, “Just what is this Third Legacy business anyhow? And just how much territory does ‘service’ take in?”

I pray that I may try today to overcome the self-centeredness that makes me bored. I pray that my day may be brightened by some little act of charity. Boredom comes from thinking too much about yourself. Use up the odd moments of your day in trying to do some little thing to cheer up your fellow man. A smile, a word of encouragement, a word of love, goes winged on its way, simple enough it may seem, while the mighty words of an orator fall on deaf ears. “If I have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.” Charity means to care enough about your fellow man to really want to do something for him.

Have I got rid of the fear of being bored? Sobriety should give you so many new interests in life that you shouldn’t have time to be bored. A new life opens up before you that can be always interesting. But once you have taken up the interest of A.A., once you have given it your time and enthusiasm, boredom should not be a problem to you. Drinking was always the answer to all kinds of boring people and boring situations. has to understand is how he can stay sober and not be bored. One of the hardest things that a new member of A.A. I ask my Higher Power to help me not cause another’s lack of growth today-or my own. Yet in looking back, I can see that pain, struggles and setbacks have all contributed eventually to serenity through growth in the program. How often do my “prayers” for others involve “hidden” prayers for my own agenda? How often is my search for happiness a boulder in the path of growth for another, or even myself? Seeking growth through humility and acceptance brings things that appear to be anything but good, wholesome and vital. ” … there are only two sins the first is to interfere with the growth of another human being, and the second is to interfere with one’s own growth.”

Aa daily reflection nov 4