Romans 12:2 King James Version (KJV)
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Jeremiah 29:11 King James Version (KJV)
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Prayer for the Day
"Heavenly Father, Thank You for another year sober and emotionally sound. Thank You for plucking me out of darkness and bringing me into the light of Your love for me. Thank You for the peace and serenity I found in You, and You alone. Thank You for ALL You have blessed me with, the the people that You trust me to work with. Father, I Faithfully, with Full Trust and Honor and Love, commit myself to remaining teachable. I release to You Father the women I was yesterday for a whole new experience with You today. I surrender to You all that I was, am, and will become by allowing You to work through me. In Jesus name-Amen"
Today’s action(s)
- Today I am going to fully surrender to His will (Step 1, 2 and 3!)
- Today I will allow Him to dictate my next move by asking myself throughout the day when I am engaging in action "would God want me doing this?(Sloth and Gluttony replaced by Movement and Moderation)
- Today I will see that God works through others, just as He works through me; that He may use someone to relay a message to me..even if the message comes in the form of a criticism. (Anger and Pride replaced Humbly Self Controlled)
- Today I will not personalize other people's decisions, making everything about "me"...Instead, I will pray for God's will for them. (Gradeosity replaced by Humility)
- Today I will not play God by insisting my agenda on others knowing that my will/my way creates chaos and strife! (Selfish and Self Seeking replaced by Respecting others personal boundaries...Thy will, not mine be done!)
- Today I will NOT take myself so seriously.... people respond better to a light heart ;) (Ego replaced by God!)
Podcast of the Day
Alcoholics And God Fall Step Series 2017
Pat R. takes us on
a Journey Through The 12 Steps
One Step per Week for 12 Weeks
Tonight was Pat’s 9th Session of 12 Sessions
12 x 12 on Tradition 4
“Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. asa whole."
These traditions are more interesting then I thought! Honestly, I never dove too deep into them or the history behind them. I brush over them in meetings. Just being honest! Here is a preview:
"Over the years, every conceivable deviation from our
Twelve Steps and Traditions has been tried. That was sure
to be, since we are so largely a band of ego-driven individualists.
Children of chaos, we have defiantly played with
every brand of fire, only to emerge unharmed and, we
think, wiser. These very deviations created a vast process of
trial and error which, under the grace of God, has brought
us to where we stand today."
God I love us! LOL! We will over complicate the hell out of everything with our big ideas backed by a childlike ego!! God certainly has his hands full with us.
Here is a link to read more about this tradition and the "bight idea" someone came up to have a Alcoholic Center...highered a "promoter" and everything...lol!
I absolutely LOVE "Children of chaos"....Gonna use that in the meetings forsure!
Big Book Bills Story Continued....
I saw that my friend was much more than inwardly reorganized. He was on a different footing. His roots grasped a new soil.
Despite the living example of my friend there remained in me the vestiges of my old prejudice. The word God still aroused a certain antipathy. When the thought was expressed that there might be a God personal to me this feeling was intensified. I didn’t like the idea. I could go for such conceptions as Creative Intelligence, Universal Mind or Spirit of Nature but I resisted the thought of a Czar of the Heavens, however loving His sway might be. I have since talked with scores of men who felt the same way.
My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea. He said, “Why don’t you choose your own conception of God?’’
That statement hit me hard. It melted the icy intellectual mountain in whose shadow I had lived and shivered many years. I stood in the sunlight at last.
It was only a matter of being willing to believe in a Power greater than myself. Nothing more was required of me to make my beginning. I saw that growth could start from that point. Upon a foundation of complete willingness I might build what I saw in my friend. Would I have it? Of course I would!
Thus was I convinced that God is concerned with us humans when we want Him enough. At long last I saw, I felt, I believed. Scales of pride and prejudice fell from my eyes. A new world came into view.
The real significance of my experience in the Cathedral burst upon me. For a brief moment, I had needed and wanted God. There had been a humble willing- ness to have Him with me—and He came. But soon the sense of His presence had been blotted out by worldly clamors, mostly those within myself. And so it had been ever since. How blind I had been.
As Bill See’s it
Anger -- Personal and Group Enemy
"As the book `Alcoholics Anonymous' puts it, `Resentment is
the Number One offender'. It is a primary cause of relapses
into drinking. How well we of A.A. know that for us `to drink
is eventually to go mad or die'.
"Much the same penalty overhangs every A.A. group. Given
enough anger, both unity and purpose are lost. Given still
more `righteous' indignation, the group can disintegrate; it
can actually die. This is why we avoid controversy. This is
why we prescribe no punishments for any misbehavior, no
matter how grievous. Indeed, no alcoholic can be deprived of
his membership for any reason whatever.
"Punishment never heals. Only love can heal."
LETTER, 1966
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
Hebrews 13:8-9 King James Version (KJV)