Daily
Reflections reading June 29th
A Rippling Effect
Having
learned to live so happily, we’d show everyone else how. . . . Yes, we of A.A.
did dream those dreams. How natural that was, since most alcoholics are bankrupt
idealists. . . . So why shouldn’t we share our way of life with everyone?
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 156
The
great discovery of sobriety led me to feel the need to spread the “good news”
to the world around me. The grandiose thoughts of my drinking days returned.
Later, I learned that concentrating on my own recovery was a full-time process.
As I became a sober citizen in this world, I observed a rippling effect which,
without any conscious effort on my part, reached any “related facility or
outside enterprise,” without diverting me from my primary purpose of staying
sober and helping other alcoholics to achieve sobriety
©
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
My
thoughts on June 29th Reading
Well action is how it works for me honesty taken action
working all the 12 steps, I had to live in the spiritual way of life, to change
and to show others I had changed my old actions of twenty-six years of drinking,
that make skeptics out of all my friends
Some of my wrongs can’t be made whole again this is the
rippling effects of my past, but today I don’t worry about them, I know if I
could I would honestly make them right again, but some would hurt others and
this I can not do today
I had to be rigorously honest, considerate, and humble
without becoming belligerent, I had to pursue a spiritual way of life, cleaning
up the past mistakes, making amends, I did enter the world of the Spirit, I
started to grow in the understanding
Of what I had to do next I have to continue to watch for
selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear this is the rippling effect of my
present, I have ceased fighting anything or anyone, my attitudes were changing even
towards alcohol
Sanity has started returned, I seldom thought of booze, this
was a miracle when I stopped fighting what I really have is a daily reprieve,
contingent on the maintenance of my spiritual condition
I have felt the flow of His spirit in me, I have become God-conscious,
I to have begun to develop the spiritual sixth sense and started to move on
with action, I had to look
over my day and see if I was resentful, selfish, dishonest,
or fearful
Are there any amends I have to make for that days actions,
or non actions, I need to ask God for inspiration, I need to ask my sponsor’s
help with my decisions, its amazing to me how the right answers come
After I have tried this for a while, I do try to meditate on
many things today and end with a prayer to be shown what my next step is and to
be given whatever I need to take care of such problems
I have paused, when agitated or doubtful, I ask for the
right action to be sure I an spiritually fit the program really does work, when
we work our way thru the steps, to this new way of life
God did help me in the simple outline of the steps
"Faith without works is dead."
If the program is not passed forward the rippling will not be there for
the next sick and suffering alcoholic, we also would lose the gift of given
back
God bless you Al M
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