AA Thoughts For Today - June

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AA Thought for the Day

June 4

Three Pertinent Ideas

Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our
personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas:
That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives.
That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism.
That God could and would if He were sought.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (How It Works) p. 60

Thought to Ponder . . .
If I can't and God can, am I willing to ask Him to?

AA-related 'Alconym'
W I L L I N G = When I Live Life, I Need God.

~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~

Instincts
"The idea keeps persisting that the instincts
are primarily bad and are the roadblocks
before which all spirituality falters.
I believe that the difference between good and evil
is not the difference between spiritual
and instinctual man;
it is the difference between proper and improper
use of the instinctual.
Recognition and right channeling of the instinctual
are the essence of achieving wholeness."
Bill W., Letter, 1954
1967AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 287

Thought to Consider . . .
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
G R A C E = Gently Releasing All Conscious Expectations

*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*

Model
From "The Man Who Mastered Fear":
"Poor health and a complete lack of money necessitated my remaining with Dr. Bob and Anne for very close to a year. It
would be impossible for me to pass over this year without mentioning my love for, and my indebtedness to, these two
wonderful people who are no longer with us. They made me feel as if I were a part of their family, and so did their
children. The example that they and Bill W., whose visits to Akron were fairly frequent, set for me of service to their
fellow men imbued me with a great desire to emulate them."
2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth Edition; Alcoholics Anonymous, pgs. 251-52

*~*~*~*~*^ Grapevine Quote ^*~*~*~*~*

"A little voice deep inside me said, 'Hello, I am here.' It was a small voice, and sounded as if it were buried underneath
the cushions of my couch. It was my soul ... I had forgotten it.""
Apex, N.C., March 2006
"A Soul Checks In,"
AA Grapevine

~*~*~*~*^ Big Book & Twelve N' Twelve Quotes of the Day ^*~*~*~*~*

"Let no alcoholic say he cannot recover unless he has his family
back. This just isn't so. In some cases the wife will never come
back for one reason or another. Remind the prospect that his
recovery is not dependent upon people. It is dependent upon his
relationship with God. We have seen men get well whose families have
not returned at all. We have seen others slip when the family came
back too soon."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Working With Others, pg. 99~

"We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of
alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy;
that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never
occurs in the average temperate drinker. These allergic types can
never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed
the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-
confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up
on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Doctor's Opinion, pg. xxviii~

Until now, our lives have been largely devoted to running from pain and problems.
-Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 74

Misc. AA Literature - Quote

We give thanks to our Heavenly Father, who through so many friends and through many means and channels, has
allowed us to construct this wonderful edifice of the spirit in which we are now dwelling--this cathedral whose
foundations already rest upon the corners of the earth.
On its great floor we have inscribed our Twelve Steps of recovery. On the side walls, the buttresses of A.A. Traditions
have been set in place to contain us in unity for as long as God may will it so. Eager hearts and hands have lifted the
spire of our cathedral into its place. That spire bears the name of service. May it ever point straight upward toward God.
'Its is not only to the few that we owe the remarkable developments in our unity and in our ability to carry A.A.'s
message everywhere. It is to the many; indeed, it is to the labors of all of us that owe these prime blessings.

Prayer For The Day: Prayer for the Morning:
Good morning, dear Father; thank you for this day,
Help me to follow you in every way.
Let me speak as you speak, and do as you do;
Let me help others, as you help them, too.
Help me to be honest, don't let me play games,
Help me to grow, yet still stay the same.
Help me not to be selfish, to give of my heart, my mind and my labor;
Give all - not just part.
Help me to love others, my family, my friends,
Bless all of my foes, help me make amends.
Help me be kind, Father, where I am needed, let
Me give warm attention, and see all needs are met.
Help keep me busy, to strive for the best,
Help me not to be lazy, but find needed rest.
Let me come to you, Father, throughout the day,
Often to thank you, often to pray.
Amen.