Daily
Reflections reading May 31st
Readiness To Serve Others
our
Society has concluded that it has but one high mission — to carry the A.A.
message to those who don’t know there’s a way out. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE
TRADITIONS, p. 151
The
“Light” to freedom shines bright on my fellow alcoholics as each one of us
challenges the other to grow. The “Steps” to self-improvement have small
beginnings, but each Step builds the “ladder” out of the pit of despair to new
hope. Honesty becomes my “tool” to unfurl the “chains” which bound me. A
sponsor, who is a caring listener, can help me to truly hear the message
guiding me to freedom.
I
ask God for the courage to live in such a way that the Fellowship may be a
testimony to His favor. This mission frees me to share my gifts of wellness
through a spirit of readiness to serve others.
© Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
My
thoughts on May 31st Reading
Working with a newcomer I have found the very first Question
they ask is how can they stop, well I really do not have an answer for that
question, because I am not this person all I can do is share my own experience
with him on what I did to put down the drink
To never have to pick it up again by accepting I have a
problem and needed guidance, for me it was a spiritual awakening the finding of
a power greater than myself, who I chose to call God today, but when I got to
the halls of AA my higher power was a group of drunks
When I share my experience with an agnostic, or atheist, I
tell them its ok not to agree with my concept of a God they can choose any
thing that makes sense to them, the main thing is to be willing to believe in a
Power greater than you
Try to live by a set of principles as they are explained in
the 12 steps, the Twelve Steps are a set of principles “spiritual in their
nature” if practiced as a way of life can expel the obsession to drink and
enable them to change their life around as we have
I tell them about how I only knew the vengeful and
condemning God of my family’s religious belief and I kicked that God out of my
life years ago, when I got my sponsor he told me straight out that anyone can
stop the hurt and pain of the day
But to change your life around you need a power greater than
yourself, my first thought was I am now hopelessly lost I did not want this
vengeful God in my life, he said why don't you try our God the one of
compassion hope love forgiveness
You don't have far to go to met this wonderful God he is
right in your heart, but I like so many of us was to closed minded to see that
right then, but I did come to believe in Him later, I tell new people it’s a
program of action and the process starts with step one surrendering to the
disease
Admitting and accepting you are an alcoholic and can’t drink
in safety, when I share how the twelve steps saved my life and I found AA is
the only way I was going to stay sober, I talk about the big fourth step where
I got to know myself
I had to straightened out my past making amends along the
way for all the crap I pulled when I was drinking and thinking only of myself,
one of the most important things I can tell anyone is they need to get to
meetings and learn how to listen
To identify with others and not try to compare their life to
another’s, we all have a lot of things in common and that is where we have to
look, just what things in common will help us better understand ourselves,
bottom line is it costs nothing to reach out
Talk to someone who is trying to find himself, after all I
do remember when I was walking in his shoes It is easy to talk to someone who
is looking for answers and it is hard at times to not offer advice, but I know
I can only suggest he try’s doing what I have done try the program
God bless you Al M
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