Daily
Reflections reading April 26th
Happiness Is Not The Point
I
don’t think happiness or unhappiness is the point. How do we meet the problems
we face? How do we best learn from them and transmit what we have learned to others,
if they would receive the knowledge? AS BILL SEES IT, p. 306
In
my search “to be happy,” I changed jobs, married and divorced, took
geographical cures, and ran myself into debt–financially, emotionally and
spiritually. In A.A., I’m learning to grow up. Instead of demanding that
people, places and things make me happy, I can ask God for self-acceptance.
When a problem overwhelms me, A.A.’s Twelve Steps will help me grow through the
pain. The knowledge I gain can be a gift to others who suffer with the same
problem. As Bill said, “When pain comes, we are expected to learn from it
willingly, and help others to learn. When happiness comes, we accept it as a
gift, and thank God for it.”
© Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
My
thoughts on April 26th Reading
The importance of new comers to me is I can today learn from
their mistakes not go out and make my same old mistakes over and over again,
listening keeps it fresh in my mind, when I was drinking I looked for happiness
in a bottle, I created a world that I could control
I never knew happiness was a feeling with-in me, I was
always trying to drowning in booze, for me happiness is an inside job that
gives me a wonderful inner peace and serenity, just being myself
Happiness is the point for me
Peace and serenity comes from my Higher Power and the
teachings of this fellowship, I still get lost in the world get caught up in
how miserable I am feeling, I still have physical pain, like everyone else I
have my fair share of emotional pain, I can be absorbed in the trials of this
pain
But over all my happiness depends on my personal state of
mind, at the beginning of my day, if I start out with an attitude of gratitude
I can overcome anything, but if I get down on myself the day does not go to
good unless I start it over, I find my inner strength for the teachings of AA
Simply put If I let God into my life on any given day, my
heart is happy and if my feeling are of gratitude I remain happy joyous and
free to be me, God has never given my more than I could handle I think at times
He pushing the limit
So when Bill W wrote this letter and said I don’t think
happiness or unhappiness is the point he knew we all were going to face challenges
in our lives and happiness is only a by product of the way we chose to live
When I follow the 12 steps of recovery they always lead me
to my inner-self, where I find peace and happiness even thru all the turmoil of
my life, all the pain and suffering of family and friends I can still be happy
for what God in His grace gave me
God bless you Al M
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