Daily Reflections reading November 6th
Going With The Flow
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him. . TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 96
The first words I speak when arising in the morning are, “I arise, O God, to do Thy will.” This is the shortest prayer I know and it is deeply ingrained in me. Prayer doesn’t change God’s attitude toward me; it changes my attitude toward God. As distinguished from prayer, meditation is a quiet time, without words. To be centered is to be physically relaxed, emotionally calm, mentally focused and spiritually aware. One way to keep the channel open and to improve my conscious contact with God is to maintain a grateful attitude. On the days when I am grateful, good things seem to happen in my life. The instant I start cursing things in my life, however, the flow of good stops. God did not interrupt the flow; my own negativity did.
© Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
My thoughts on November 6th Reading
Sobriety is all about my disease of alcoholism, that
is not cured and never will be, if I stray to far for the teachings I will be
lost again to suffer the misery of my past, all of the answers are with in me,
but are because of God and all the wonderful people in AA
Willing to help me go thru the turmoil of my life,
always willing to share one on one with me or anyone else, I learned that when
they help others they help themselves to stay sober another day, that is what
the program is all about how to stay sober this day
God does answer all our prayers, but you know
sometimes the answer is NO, if your patient and willing to listen to God He
will guide you to the right place in your life, join the millions of others who
have found a new way of life, trusting in Him and the steps join us on the road
to peace and serenity Just let go and let God
A spiritual awakening is just awareness that there is
a power greater than oneself; I found that the prayer of St Francis gave me the
strength to accept God into my life. For it is by self-forgetting that one
finds, It is by forgiving that one is forgiven
When I think I know all the answers then I am in
trouble, I had to surrender to everything the worst place I can ever go for
answers, is going into my own head alone, where all the crap of my past still
lays in wait to mug me, when I go there alone
For me spirituality is knowing God is there for me and
I have been awakened to this, its that awareness that some form of a higher
power is now working in my life, I could see this in all the people I met in
the halls when I walked thru the doors of AA
They just had something that I so desperately wanted,
a peace and happiness about them, the Spiritual experiences are a lot different
than a spiritual awakening, very few in recovery have that white light
spiritual experience that Bill had
When I started my journey into recovery I had no real
belief system, nor did I want to pray to any type of God, after all I had
control of my life only thing I needed to do was stop drinking and move on with
my life
Well the time did come that no power on earth was
going to keep me from drinking, I became as desperate as a dying man could
become, I admitted my powerlessness, I started to honesty pray to this God of
your understanding
Six months into my recovery, I finally ask this God
with all the honesty and humility I could muster up, I ask God to remove the
desire to drink and all the things driving my life be taken away, well I had
this spiritual experience that night
Laying on my mothers hide a bed sofa, I was awaken by
the feeling of being bitten by rat like things and was scared out of my mind,
then I went into a deep sleep that lasted 36 hours I awoke with this fantastic
sense of well being I call total serenity
This was the most wonderful thing I have ever felt in
my life, nothing on earth could ever match what I was given on this night so
long ago, from that day on I had a wonderful relationship with the God of my
understanding, I truly accept Gods will for me
I thank Him each day for the strength to carry out His
will, Gods blessing to Sandy and I are far to many to even begin to tell God
and AA sure gave me this life of peace love and serenity and He will for you if
you ask Him God loves us all
God Bless you Al M
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