Daily
Reflections reading January 10th
United We Stand
We
learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were
alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other
people, or presently may be, has to be smashed. Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 30
I
came to Alcoholics Anonymous because I was no longer able to control my
drinking. It was either my wife’s complaining about my drinking, or maybe the
sheriff forced me to go to A.A. meetings, or perhaps I knew, deep down inside,
that I couldn’t drink like others, but I was unwilling to admit it because the
alternative terrified me. Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women
united against a common, fatal disease. Each one of our lives is linked to
every other, much like the survivors on a life raft at sea. If we all work
together, we can get safely to shore.
© Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
My thoughts on January 10th Reading
United we stand, because God wants to give us a new life, of
hope, peace, joy, and happiness, He doesn't ask us to change our lives by
ourselves, He only asks we come to Him just as we are, trusting totally in His
unconditional love, trust, and forgiveness, and be willing to change
To let Him show us the way, He will pass on the teachings of
those who came before us, we need to keep our thoughts on what we have been
giving, not on what we have lost, our disease has already taken to much away
from us
We can never make-up for the damage we have caused, but we
can make amends, to the ones we have hurt, by making amends, we then can start
fresh, its up to those we try to make amends too, they can accept that we are
trying and hopefully forgive us
We never accept the guilt or the failings of someone else,
if they have harmed, us the memories will haunt us until we forgive them, for
we need to let go of our anger and fear, forgiveness lets this happen.
Nothing in our lives is ever wasted, no loss of material things
can ever erase our memories, or our love for what we cherished in our lives,
when we forgive ourselves, we always have hope to regain some of the things we
lost
Only we can destroy ourselves by given up to our disease, My
past will always be with me, no one can destroy memories our old lives will
always remind us, that we have changed, to becoming loving useful members in
recovery, with a positive attitude about life.
A car battery has positive and a negative, if you touch the
two posts together they will short out all the life it has. You must ground the
negative in order for the positive to flow thru the wires and give power to
everything it is connected to.
We are like the battery, if we ground the negative in our
lives with the twelve steps of our program, we will be able to stay grounded
with our negative past, we can now begin to project positive thought for our
future, thru our program of recovery
I must always stay focused on my recovery, by sharing my
experience, strength, and hope, this also will help in the recovery of others,
we all need help at times, no matter how far down we go, or how much recovery
we have, at sometime in our life's we are apt to have a bad day
That could wipe everything out; we all need to express our
feelings towards each other, to show how much we need each other’s support.
When we are vulnerable, is when we need our inner circle of friends in
recovery.
Anger, fear, self-pity, loneliness, and despair are our
constant enemy, don't look for God around you, for He dwells with-in you, by
being less selfish, less self-centered, by letting go of your old self
completely, and shedding all your old ways, you will feel His presents with-in
you
God bless you Al M
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