Daily Reflections reading
September 19th
Acceptance
We admitted we couldn’t lick alcohol
with our own remaining resources, and so we accepted the further fact that
dependence upon a Higher Power ( if only our A.A. group ) could do this hitherto
impossible job. The moment we were able to accept these facts fully, our
release from the alcohol compulsion had begun. AS BILL SEES IT PAGE 109
Freedom came to me only when my
acceptance that I could turn my will and my life over to the care of my Higher
Power, whom I call God. Serenity seeped into the chaos of my life when I
accepted that what I was going through was life, and that God would help me
through my difficulties – and much more, as well. Since then He has helped me
through all of my difficulties! When I accept situations as they are, not as I
wish them to be, then I can begin to grow and have serenity and peace of mind
© Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
My thoughts on September 19th
Reading
It is not all about me, accepting myself was the hardest thing I ever had to do, when I started doing the fourth
step I started to see how wrong I had been how I hurt so many people I did not
like what I saw looking at all the crap I pulled and how I was at fault trying
to control others in my life
It was really a stupid drunken one sided relationship I had
with the whole world, I did not have any acceptance of anyone else’s feelings
until I arrived at the doors of AA broken and twisted hopelessly lost person in
that bottle of booze
It took me a long time to accept that I could change and
become the person God wanted me
to be but I had to find that acceptance of myself and be willing
to change the person I brought
into the halls I had to learn how to forgive myself and also had to
ask forgiveness from
those who I hurt
One of my favorite saying is acceptance is the key to all my
problems today I don’t always like what’s put in front of me or what I have put
in front of myself but the things that come my way are here for a reason only
God knows about, I do the best I can to accept it as it is
I know He never give me more than I could handle, but boy He
sure does push the limits of what I think I can not handle very often if there
is something, I want but do not get it I can accept this with serenity today
I have to accept the things I can't change in my life like
people, places, and things, I have courage to change things I can about how I
had lived and want to live, the wisdom is knowing that all I can really change
in life is ME!!! And my attitudes
If I accept by my
past ways telling people they have to do it my way calling them names fighting
with them I guess the serenity would never be there for me I could not gain
peace of mind to be able to gracefully accept changes in my life
I have to look to my new found God for guidance and strength
Its His will for me today I know He gave my strength to let go of my old ways,
He removed the desire to drink from me, He taught me how to learn a new way of
life
He also gave me the courage to change, He removed fear and
despair from me and gave me hope and love to accept my life today, when I
trusted in Him He gave me hope for a better day and a happier way of life
I just had to
honestly and very humble ask Him for the guidance to accept His will, on His
terms not mine, then let go and let Him show me the way to do it with serenity,
acceptance is trusting my life and everything else to God's, understanding,
guidance, and care
This does not mean I will be a door mat for anyone, I do not
need to accept unacceptable behaviors from anyone, yet I can still love them
without liking what they are doing to me or to others AA has taught me that
there is a bit of good in the worst of us and a bit of bad in the best of
us
We are all
children of God and we each have a right to be here.
God bless you Al M
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