We learn to love our enemies, not for some grand reason. This is where we turn to our program for help. We addicts naturally want to control things and people. Of course, loving your enemy is also hard. Loving your enemy means, instead of trying to get even, you let your Higher Power handle that person. It’s a lot easier on you! Hating someone takes so much time and energy. Whatever I’m facing today, I’ll know that it is temporary and has no power to keep me from the deeper happiness and gratitude I have in the 12 step program. The good news in AA is that we can survive any experience and put it behind us. We must also be careful not to resurrect them by brooding about how badly we were treated or trying to get even with others. While we should be willing to accept unpleasantness if the re is no way of avoiding it, we should always hope … And work for improvement. Our business is to make sure that our own thoughts and actions lead to betterment, for ourselves and others. Were it otherwise, intolerable conditions would last forever. In discussions, we catch this idea by reminding ourselves that “This too shall pass.” No matter how beautiful or ugly a situation becomes, it must change in time. Growing older in sobriety, w soon become aware of the fact that both good and bad experiences eventually pass on. He will therefore help to eliminate fear, expediency, and self-deception, so enabling us to make choices which are loving, wise, and honest. He knows that each final choice must be ours. A good adviser will never do all our thinking for us. We cannot wholly rely on friends to solve all our difficulties. If Step Four has revealed in stark relief those experiences we’d rather not remember, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever. experience has taught us we cannot live alone with our pressing problems and the character defects which cause or aggravate them. Scarcely any Step is more necessary to long-time sobriety and peace of mind.Ī.A. When it comes to ego deflation, few Steps are harder to take than the Fifth. I pray that I may know this one thing above all else in the universe.Īll of A.A.’s Twelve Steps ask us to go contrary to our natural desires they all deflate our egos.
I pray that my faith may be based on my own experience of the power of God in my life. Much of our lives must be taken on faith. The simple fact is that we can never know all things, nor are we made to know them. The simple fact is that we cannot even define space or time, which we have manufactured by our own minds and on that depends all our so-called knowledge of the universe. Am I receiving strength from my personal witnessing?
This personal witness lets out the things you had kept hidden, brings them out into the open, and you find release and strength. You give a personal witness, you share your past experiences, the troubles you got into, the hospitals, the jails, the break-up of your home, the money wasted, the debts, and all the foolish things you did when you were drinking. Strength comes from honestly telling your own experiences with drinking.
#AA DAILY REFLECTIONS FOR MARCH 7 FULL#
Today–and every day–with a heart full of gratitude, and a desire for God’s will to be done through me, my life is worth sharing, especially with my fellow alcoholics! Above all, if I do not make a religion out of anything, even A.A., then I can be an open channel for God’s expression. The results have been constructive I no longer allow others to make decisions for me and then criticize me for it. Then I began to make decisions and act on them, rather than react to them. After joining A.A., I started seeking daily guidance from a Power greater than myself, and learning to listen for that guidance. When not reacting I acted in a mechanical fashion. He wasn’t made to God’s image to be an automation.īefore I joined A.A., I often did not think, and reacted to people and situations.
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