Now we’re learning that we can heal.īeing recovery doesn’t mean things will be easy. Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. I’ll do my best today in whatever job I have, grateful for the sobriety that helps me stay self-supporting and happy. That should be success enough for any of us. Our Higher Power will show us where our place in life should be. In AA terms, however, this period was the truly successful part of his life. In worldly terms, he could be seen as less successful. In his sober years, he found great satisfaction in a relatively low- paying judgeship. One of our members, for example, had once been the senior member of a lucrative law partnership before drinking himself into the gutter.
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We should never think that a person is unsuccessful merely because he or she holds a low-paying job or has not regained any business or professional stature that has been lost. We can be successful people in all walks of life. In AA, success means staying sober while using the AA principles in our daily affairs. Sometimes we can get off the track by mixing AA with the world’s ideas of success. Perhaps the secret of their power lies in the fact that these life-giving communications spring out of living experience and are rooted in love. We obey them willingly because we ought to and because we want to. Traditions are neither rules, regulations, nor laws. There is God, our Father, who very simply says, “I am waiting for you to do my will.” The other authority is named John Barleycorn, and he says, “You had better do God’s will or I will kill you.” We have two authorities which are far more effective. Happily for us, we found that we need no human authority whatever. Other societies have to have law and force and sanction and punishment, administered by authorized people. I pray that I may not seek rewards for doing what I believe is right. I pray that I may not desire the world’s applause. “Enter into the joy of Thy Lord.” Pass into that fuller spiritual life, which is a life of joy and peace. Not to the world-famed, the proud, the wealthy, are these words spoken, but to the quiet followers who serve God unobtrusively yet faithfully, who bear their crosses bravely and put a smiling face to the world. Enter into the joy of Thy Lord.” These words are for many ordinary people whom the world may pass by, unrecognizing. “Well done, thou good and faithful servant. We do this by giving ourselves wholeheartedly to A.A. This division of ourselves is not good we must somehow become unified.
So we are back and forth, always in conflict with our other selves, always in a stew. But we drink again, and again our bad side comes out. Then we wonder how we could have done the things we did. When we sober up, we are different people. We did things when we were drunk that we would never do when we were sober.
When we were drinking, the bad personality was in control. We are all dual personalities to some extent. It is good to maintain contact with God at all times, but it is absolutely essential that, when everything seems to go wrong, I maintain that contact through prayer and meditation.Įveryone has two personalities, a good and a bad. It is only when I am alone and calm that I am able to communicate with God, for He cannot reach me when I am in turmoil. The agonies and the void that I often felt inside occur less and less frequently in my life today. Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the feeling that we didn’t quite belong. Please find below today’s date listed in EST, and then please find the date on the calendar below and click on it to see today’s readings and quotes.Almost without exception, alcoholics are tortured by loneliness. Hello and welcome to Just for Today Meditations.
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