AA Thoughts For Today - February

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AA Thought for the Day

February 6

Pride and Fear

So when A.A. suggests a fearless moral inventory, it must seem to every
newcomer that more is being asked of him than he can do. Both his pride
and his fear beat him back every time he tries to look within himself. Pride
says, "You need not pass this way," and Fear says, "You dare not look!"
But the testimony of A.A.'s who have really tried a moral inventory is that
pride and fear of this sort turn out to be bogeymen, nothing else.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 49

Thought to Ponder . . .
Swallowing my pride will not get me drunk.

AA-related 'Alconym'
F E A R = False Evidence Appearing Real.

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

Money Matters
Money gradually became our servant
and not our master.
It became a means of exchanging love and service
with those about us.
When, with God's help, we calmly accepted our lot,
then we found we could live at peace with ourselves
and show others who still suffered the same fears
that they could get over them, too.
We found that freedom from fear was
more important than freedom from want.
c. 1952 AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 122

Thought to Consider . . .
It's more important to feel happy about who I am
than who I think I should be.

*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
P A C E = Positive Attitudes Change Everything.

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

Hope
From "The Keys of the Kingdom":
"I stayed up all night reading that [Big] book. For me it was a wonderful experience. It explained so much I had not
understood about myself, and, best of all, it promised recovery if I would do a few simple things and be willing to have
the desire to drink removed. Here was hope. Maybe I could find my way out of this agonizing existence. Perhaps I could
find freedom and peace, and be able once again to call my soul my own."
2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth Edition; Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 273

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

"Change happens in sobriety and, big or small, I try to see where God wants me to fit in each day."
Monaca, Pa., April 2011
"An Unmade Bed,"
AA Grapevine

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

"God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your
morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still
sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order. But
obviously you cannot transmit something you haven't got. See to it
that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come
to pass for you and countless others. This is the Great Fact for us."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, A Vision For You, pg. 164~

We can look the world in the eye. We can be alone at perfect peace and ease. Our fears fall from us. We begin to feel
the nearness of our Creator. We may have had certain spiritual beliefs, but now we begin to have a spiritual experience.
The feeling that the drink problem has disappeared will often come strongly. We feel we are on the Broad Highway,
walking hand in hand with the Spirit of the Universe. ~Alcoholics Anonymous page 75

And let's always remember that meditation is in reality intensely practical. One of its first fruits is emotional balance.
-Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p. 101

Misc. AA Literature - Quote

One exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings and then for a right acceptance of the many gifts
that are mine - both temporal and spiritual. Here I try to achieve a state of joyful gratitude. When such a brand of
gratitude is repeatedly affirmed and pondered, it can finally displace the natural tendency to congratulate myself on
whatever progress I may have been enabled to make in some areas of living.
I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with
gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion that we can ever know.

Prayer for the Day: Lord God, may I not only feel the need of thee when I am burdened with sorrow and care, but may I
have need of thee in my pleasures and joys. I thank thee for thy gracious kindness, thy mercy and thy protection. Amen.