Wednesday, January 27, 2016
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| Oregon state Judge Vance Day |
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| Mathew Shurka, survivor of gay conversion therapy |
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Jan. 27, 2016 - Readings in Recovery: Today's Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016
Today's thought from the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Gaining peace of mind
Even though many of us were certainly ready to take the First Step - to admit that we were addicts - we balked at taking the following eleven steps. We felt it would be ridiculous or too much work, or we denied the existence of a Higher Power.
When we started to hurt bad or began to reach for that first fix, pill, or drink, we woke up. We remembered and longed for the promise of peace of mind contained in those Steps. The PROMISE! Then we made a decision to work these Steps and to earn that promise.
Do I have peace of mind? Higher Power, the plan is up to You; the decision is up to me.
God help me to stay clean and sober today.
Gaining peace of mind
Even though many of us were certainly ready to take the First Step - to admit that we were addicts - we balked at taking the following eleven steps. We felt it would be ridiculous or too much work, or we denied the existence of a Higher Power.
When we started to hurt bad or began to reach for that first fix, pill, or drink, we woke up. We remembered and longed for the promise of peace of mind contained in those Steps. The PROMISE! Then we made a decision to work these Steps and to earn that promise.
Do I have peace of mind? Higher Power, the plan is up to You; the decision is up to me.
God help me to stay clean and sober today.
You are reading from the book:
Day by Day © 1974, 1998 by Hazelden Foundation
Jan. 27, 2016 - Readings in Recovery: Step by Step
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| The Serenity Prayer |
Step by Step
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016
Today, "Let Go and Let God" does not absolve me from responsibility for being alcoholic and from participation in my redemption from the damage and pain to others of my drinking days. "Let Go and Let God" commands that I turn my will over to my Higher Power for knowledge of HIS will for me and "the power to carry (it) out." It does not give me the easy out by expecting God to do it for me. In accepting a role in my recovery instead of expecting it to come to me by reading the Big Book and going to meetings, I understand that sobriety is a two-level process. On the surface, I cannot drink; on a deeper level, I cannot expect a fundamental change in spiritual and emotional conditions that comes solely by not drinking. I am responsible for my condition as an alcoholic; likewise, I am responsible for my recovery. "Let Go and Let God" does not dismiss me from either responsibility. Today, I "Let Go and Let God" by surrendering MY self-will and listening for my High Power to show me HIS will and how to carry it out. And our common journey continues. Step by step. - Chris M., 2016
Jan. 27, 2016 - Readings in Recovery: Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016
AA Thought for the Day
Alcoholics carry an awful load around with them. What a load lying puts on your shoulders! Drinking makes liars out of all of us alcoholics. In order to get the liquor we want, we have to lie all the time. We have to lie about where we've been and what we've been doing. When you are lying, you are only half alive because of the fear of being found out. When you come into AA and get honest with yourself and with other people, that terrible load of lying falls off your shoulders.
Have I got rid of that load of lying?
Meditation for the Day
I believe that in the spiritual world, as in the material world, there is no empty space. As fears and worries and resentments depart out of my life, the things of the spirit come in to take their places. Calm comes after a storm. As soon as I am rid of fears and hates and selfishness, God's love and peace and calm can come in.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may rid myself of all fears and resentments, so that peace and serenity may take their place. I pray that I may sweep my life clean of evil, so that good may come in.
Hazelden Foundation
Jan. 27, 2016 - Readings in Recovery: A Day at a Time
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016
Reflection for the Day
I can attain real dignity, importance and individuality only by a dependence on a Power which is great and good, beyond anything I can imagine or understand. I will try my utmost to use this Power in making all my decisions. Even though my human mind cannot forecast what the outcome will be, I will try to be confident that whatever comes will be for my ultimate good.
Just for today, will I try to live this day only, and not tackle my whole life problem at once?
Today I Pray
May I make no decision, engineer no change in the course of my lifestream, without calling upon my Higher Power. May I have faith that God's plan for me is better than any scheme I could devise for myself.
Today I Will Remember
God is the architect. I am the builder.
Hazelden Foundation
Jan. 27, 2016 - Readings in Recovery: The Eye Opener
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016
We alcoholics are the world's greatest squanderers. During our drinking days we squandered our money, our health, our time, our intellect, our reputations, in fact everything - not for a purpose, but to make ourselves oblivious to the fact that we were doing so.
We who have accepted the AA way of living must never give up our old habit, but we should learn to spend ourselves for a constructive purpose.
That purpose is to help the other alcoholic. We are the best qualified people in the world for the job. Years of conditioning and thousands of dollars went into the process of making us experts. We have no other means of atoning for the past, no other way of showing our appreciation for the Grace of God which saved us, but to squander ourselves for this world-needed purpose.
Hazelden Foundation
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
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