Daily
Reflections reading October 24th
By Faith And By Works
On anvils of experience, the structure of our Society was
hammered out . . .. Thus has it been with A.A. By faith and by works we have been
able to build upon the lessons of an incredible experience. They live today in
the Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous, which-God willing-shall sustain
us in unity for so long as He may need us. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS,
p. 131
God has allowed me the
right to be wrong in order for our Fellowship to exist as it does today. If I
place God's will first in my life, it is very likely that A.A., as I know it
today will remain as it is.
© Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
My thoughts on October 24th Reading
First
thing I learned in recovery is I am not God, but it took a lot to see He really
did exist, going about Gods business is going along with His plans for me, this
is not an issue today, I have a fantastic Relationship with God, I am one with
Him most days
But I
had a big issue with God in the beginning of my recovery, I did not want Him in
my life, the God of my old understanding, was a very vengeful angry God who I
feared, I thank the founders for realizing this and given us a choice of our
higher power
I had to
come to believe in this wonderful God of AA who forgave me and saved me, what
got me here was when He intervened with my plan to end my life, it was very
ignorant to try to take my life because of all the mistakes of my past
I made
many mistakes and had harmed many people when out there drinking, God knew how
much it hurt me to keep reliving those feeling of my past, drinking stopped the
feelings for a while but even that was not working in the end
God gave
me this chance to do the right action and start over, feeling my feelings, He
gave me the hope and strength to begin feeling feelings to change my life
around, this was hard because I had to feel the pain, guilt, and remorse of my
past in order to overcome my fears
I had to
feel that pain to have any chance to learn how to live life with out booze, all
the tools I needed were in the big book, the twelve step and twelve traditions,
with the help of the people in this God given fellowship, I found the strength
to take the action to change
I could
now see how my attitudes affected others in my life, I learned the truth about
myself, I made amends to friends and family, I was truly sorry that I had hurt
them, I had to turn to God to learn how to find that forgiveness for myself
After
all the others that I hurt had forgiven me God had forgiven me just who did I
think I was not to accept God's forgiveness, God loves us all and all He asked
is we learn how to love and forgive each other, God gave us the tools but it
takes the action to pick them up and use them
God
Bless you Al M
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