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- Feb 19, 2024
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Daily Readings and Inspirations
Daily Reflections: I'M NOT DIFFERENT
In the beginning, it was four whole years before A.A. brought permanent sobriety to even one alcoholic woman. Like the "high bottoms, " the women said they were different; . . . The Skid-Rower said he was different . . . so did the artists and the professional people, the rich, the poor, the religious, the agnostic, the
Indians and the Eskimos, the veterans, and the prisoners. . . . nowadays all of these, and legions more, soberly talk about how very much alike all of us alcoholics are when we admit that the chips are finally down. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 24
I cannot consider myself "different" in A.A.; if I do I isolate myself from others and from contact with my Higher Power. If I feel isolated in A.A., it is not something for which others are responsible.
It is something I've created by feeling I'm "different" in some way. Today I practice being just another alcoholic in the worldwide Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous.
NA Just For Today: Reservations
"Relapse is never an accident. Relapse is a sign that we have a reservation in our program." Basic Text, p. 76
A reservation is something we set aside for future use. In our case, a reservation is the expectation that, if such-and such happens, we will surely relapse. What event do we expect will be too painful to bear? Maybe we think that if a spouse or lover leaves us, we will have to get high. If we lose our job, surely, we think, we will use. Or maybe it's the death of a loved one that we expect to be unbearable. In any case, the reservations we harbor give us permission to use when they come true-as they often do.
We can prepare ourselves for success instead of relapse by examining our expectations and altering them where we can. Most of us carry within us a catalog of anticipated misery closely related to our fears. We can learn how to survive pain by watching other members live through similar pain. We can apply their lessons to our own expectations. Instead of telling ourselves we will have to get high if this happens, we can quietly reassure ourselves that we, too, can stay clean through whatever life brings us today.
Just for today: I will check for any reservations that may endanger my recovery and share them with another addict.
ACRONYMS: Recovery
LOVE: Let. Others. Voluntarily. Evolve.
NUTS: Not. Using. The. Steps.
KISS: keep it simply simple.
PUSH: Pray Until Something Happens
TIME: This I Must Experience
THINK: is it...? Thoughtful. Honest. Intelligent.Necessary. Kind.
HUG: Hope Using God
WISDOM: When In Self, Discover Our Motives *
T R U S T = Try Relying Upon Steps and Traditions.
Love is something that we all look for when we are going nuts wanting to be kissed or giving the kisses because we know that we need to give, so that we can get it back, so we push to the times to think; to see that the hugs we can give are now by the wisdom that we have come to trust.
SLOGANS: RECOVERY
An addict alone is in bad company so we see that to the point of knowing that for all its worth, there is But For The Grace Of God it is Cultivate an attitude of gratitude will be what sees us through being able to Don't pick up, ask for help, call your sponsor, and go to meetings to do it sober so that we can Give time time seeing that we only have to have a level of Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less so that It's a simple program for complicated people and that it’s your program powered by Will Power or Higher Power?
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So we come to the point in seeing that all we have to do is live life, by letting others in and being able to love by power we get to have from our higher power grace and love that we lead ourselves away from, seeing that the trust we had was no trust in what was the hope for the love that we are now able to give because of the hope, by all the hugs we pushed to give.
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