AA Thoughts For Today - January

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AA Thought for the Day

January 27

A Mysterious Way

Almost any experienced A.A. will tell how his affairs have taken remarkable and
unexpected turns for the better as he tried to improve his conscious contact with
God. He will also report that out of every season of grief or suffering, when the
hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned,
new resources of courage were uncovered, and that finally, inescapably, the
conviction came that God does "move in a mysterious way His wonders to perform."
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Eleven) pp. 104 - 105

Thought to Ponder . . .
Life is fragile, handle with prayer.

AA-related 'Alconym'
A S A P = Always Say A Prayer.

~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~

Ghosts
AA experience has taught us we cannot live alone
with our pressing problems and the character defects
which cause or aggravate them.
If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four
back and forth over our careers,
and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences
we'd rather not remember,
if we have come to know how wrong thinking and action
have hurt us and others,
then the need to quit living by ourselves
with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday
gets more urgent than ever.
We have to talk to somebody about them.
c. 1952 AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 55

Thought to Consider . . .
Trust God. Clean house. Help others.

*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
Y A N A = You Are Not Alone

*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*

Unity
Tradition One: Our common welfare should come first;
personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.
"Most individuals cannot recover unless there IS a group. Realization dawns that he is but a small part of a great whole;
that no personal sacrifice is too great for preservation of the Fellowship. He learns that the clamor of desires and
ambitions within him must be silenced whenever these could damage the group. It becomes plain that the group must
survive or the individual will not."
1981, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, page 130

*~*~*~*~*^ Grapevine Quote ^*~*~*~*~*

"I didn't need to learn how to meditate before meditating. It turned out to be one of those learn-as-you-go things -- just as
learning how to stay sober is part of staying sober a day at a time."
Anonymous, November 1991
"Trusting the Silence,"
Beginners' Book:
Getting and Staying Sober in AA

~*~*~*~*^ Big Book & Twelve N' Twelve Quotes of the Day ^*~*~*~*~*

"We alcoholics are sensitive people. It takes some of us a long time
to outgrow that serious handicap."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Family Afterward, pg. 125~

"Simple, but not easy; a price had to be paid. It meant destruction
of self-centeredness. I must turn in all things to the Father of
Light who presides over us all."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill's Story, pg. 14~

Nothing short of continuous action upon these as a way of life can bring the much-desired result.
-Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p. 40

Misc. AA Literature - Quote

We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual
condition.
We of A.A. obey spiritual principles, at first because we must, then because we ought to, and ultimately because we
love the kind of life such obedience brings. Great suffering and great love are A.A.'s disciplinarians; we need no others.

Prayer for the Day: Lord, we ask you to inspire us to encourage others by what we say and do today. Amen.