Daily
Reflections reading November 8th
An Individual Adventure
Meditation is something which can always be further developed. It has no boundaries, either of width or height. Aided by such instruction and example as we can find, it is essentially an individual adventure, something which each one of us works out in his own way. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 101
My
spiritual growth is with God as I understand Him. With Him I find my true inner
self. Daily meditation and prayer strengthen and renew my source of well-being.
I receive then the openness to accept all that He has to offer. With God I have
the reassurance that my journey will be as He wants for me, and for that I am
grateful to have God in my life.
©
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
My thoughts on November 8th Reading
An individual adventure into my very being came about when I
reached step ten and eleven in my program, knowing God, as I now understand Him,
has change every aspect of my life, all in the most positive way I could ever imagine
There is a positive effect from regular meditation, I have received
many rewards from my doing the second part of step eleven, it gets better all
the time, this for me was a big part of the healing process, I needed to keep
and stay sober
Being all loving and caring about myself and others, I replaced
the fears and self-centeredness I had when I came into the program, I heard it
said at a meeting, love in our hearts isn't there to stay, love is not love
until it is given away
This was a hard concept to grasp onto at first, being self
serving most of my life, I gave nothing away to anyone, given it away I thought
that was a dumb statement, until I realize if I do not give this back to others
I will not be able to keep any of it for myself
By practicing the steps in my life, I can now help the still
suffering alcoholic, they don't need to go any further than a meeting to find
themselves, the answers are here in this program and we can show them the way
to a life of hope
Living in the guide line of the eleventh step, is part of
the ongoing spiritual awakening, as it is defined for me in the back of the Big
Book: "a personality change." Sometimes the most 'spiritual' I can
get is to remember were my next meeting is
For many who come into the rooms, the mere thought of
spirituality is scary, many of us who make it into the program come with our
life in complete turmoil, I had to be honest in working the twelve steps, it
took a lot of fear, anxiety, sweat, and tears to get thru the first nine steps
When I reached step ten and eleven I had some spirituality
at work in my life, I found my Higher Power and I today better understand Him,
prayer and meditation is best kept simple it doesn't have to be complicated,
prayer is just talking to God, meditation is listening to God’s answers
The way I personally listen to what God is saying is thru
all you people at meetings sharing your, strength, and hope with me, yes God
talks through people in recovery and from people not in recovery I never know
where my answer will come from but it always comes
My entire coping skills came from surrendering to a disease
of mind, body, and spirit, I believe in God today, I have a sense of oneness
with Him; it made me aware of the purpose and meaning of my life there are many
things I want to do in life, some good, some not
I look at what I need to do for me, this is just simply
doing the next right thing, not reverting back to my past, meditation is an on
going thing, it has no boundaries, either of width or height, it is just our individual
adventures, something each one of us works out in our own way
In times of turmoil acceptance of my many tools and gifts can bring me some of the serenity the serenity prayer talks about, accepting all the things in life I can not change, that would be me and my attitudes, courage is just changing my faulty attitudes to be one with God
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