Daily Reflections reading
September 27th
Without Reservation
When brimming with gratitude,
one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, . . . . AS BILL SEES IT, p.37
While practicing service to others, if my successes give rise to grandiosity, I must reflect on what brought me to this point. What has been given joyfully, with love, must be passed on without reservation and without expectation. For as I grow, I find that no matter how much I give with love, I receive much more in spirit
© Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
My
thoughts on September 27th Reading
Recovery is just being grateful for who I
have become, working the steps of recovery I thank God and AA for my sobriety
and my attitude of gratitude in helping others recover I am grateful the
program is all about recovery not the death of others from the disease
To many do not find the program or stay
long enough and we lose them to the disease being grateful is taken the action
to reach out to others it is so easy to say I am grateful but it would be more
humbling to take action and show others an attitude of real gratitude
When someone reaches out I should be
ready to try to help them find recovery, this does not mean I have to carry the
mess of their disease and try to fix them I only have to share my experiences
in how our program works to show them the way
I have been blessed with this gift
because when I try to give this gift to others I receive it back this is a gift
that keeps on given to all who try to give it away so you see passing it
forwards is an on going thing not only for them but for me too because every
time I try to pass the message forwards
I always receive it back today I am
grateful to have been able to walk thru my anger, fears and hopelessness to
find this new way of life with out the booze this required looking at my past I
am grateful I became a part of something and today I will not be separate from
it
So action is needed to show my gratitude
today I do not have to focus on negatives If I start to focus on any one little
thing I will lose the love and beauty of fellowship I must always keep this
positive attitude for my recovery or I could loose focus on everything today
I can even say I am really grateful to be
able to walk thru the tragedies of life must remain forever grateful for what
God in His grace has given me in recovery for the entire blessing He has given
to my family and friends in and out of recovery
The thing I am most grateful for is the
35 extra years God has given to me when I did not kill myself, by hitting that
tree I was heading for, grateful I stopped in time God gave me a life of love
and hope that day and a fellowship of friends to see me thru
Again booze has tried to destroy our
peace and serenity by its inflections on others even thru all this we know we
have friends and prayers are there for us all we have support from all our good
friends here and around the world
Gratitude is a very hard thing when your
loved ones are so sick from the killer alcohol and we are so much more aware of
this today because of what we are going thru with our son, I must remain
forever grateful for what God in His grace has given me
I am learned to be grateful for pain and
difficulty because of the lessons they teach and I hope to God others see the
pain we went thru and do not let their family go thru the same this is such a
simple disease to arrest does not cost anything to put down the drink
But it can be the hardest thing in the
world to do if you try alone with out any support and the misery it causes is the
worst thing any family can go thru fear and anger can overwhelm us if we are
not careful and remain close to our HP our son is in a way that could turn
either way real fast
Thank God he is stable tonight but we did get extremely angry at
this disease yet grateful we found the way to a new life praying he can pull
thru a get that new liver its now in Gods hands
God bless you Al M
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