We can do all we need to do with God’s help.
Likewise, we need to practice prayer and listening to guidance first to develop our ties to God, but more importantly to be able to acknowledge when help is at hand. We need to recognize and celebrate our strong points, and they’ll gain even more strength. Recovery is best measured by our emotional and spiritual health, expressed in our apparent confidence and trust in “the process.” Each time we pat ourselves on the back for a job well done, our confidence grows a little bit more. It gives me great comfort to know that I am not making conditions worse for myself and others.Īnd it isn’t the thing you do, dear, It’s the thing you leave undone Which gives you a bit of a heartache At the setting of the sun.Ī quality we all share, a very human quality, is to expect perfection from ourselves, to expect the impossible in all tasks done. That alone makes our immediate world a much better place for everyone. Most important, by using the program, we are eliminating the drinking that has been the cause of many misfortunes in our lives. In some cases-but not all-we even learn that a misfortune was a disguised blessing. Many of us have found ways to use misfortunes constructively, however, by seeing how the program helps us deal with it. We even hear members share such experiences at meetings. Bad things can and do happen to everybody, and sometimes there’s no way to explain it.Įven in sobriety, AA members have misfortunes-times when it appears that God is hiding. No one has been able to explain why pain and misfortune must be part of the human condition. “It is not always the quantity of good things that you do, it is also the You try just as a member? You don’t have to carry the whole A.A. through any feeling ofĭiscouragement or shame. That, you surely are doing, and have beenĭoing. Other, the Lord has laid out tougher paths for some of us, and I guess I think youĪre suffering a great deal from a needless guilt. “About this slip business–I would not be too discouraged.
I pray that I may have compassion for others’ trials. I pray that I may have sympathy for those in temptation. When we are moved with compassion, we should go to the one in need and bind up his wounds as best we can. But wherever our sympathy goes, our responsibility goes too. Pity is useless because it does not have a remedy for the need. Having sympathy and compassion for all who are in temptation, a condition which we are sometimes in, we have a responsibility towards them.
But when our conscious minds are fully conditioned against drinking, we can stay sober and our subconscious minds do not often bother us.Īm I still conditioning my conscious mind?
November 30 aa daily reflection free#
During the period of our drinking days, our subconscious minds have been thoroughly conditioned by our alcoholic way of thinking and it is doubtful that they ever become entirely free of such thoughts during our lifetime. For instance, some of us dream about being drunk when we are asleep, even after several years of sobriety in A.A. It is a question whether or not our subconscious minds ever become entirely free from alcoholic thoughts as long as we live. The thoughts that come before having a slip are often largely subconscious. So I try to remember daily that I have a whole program of recovery based on all Twelve of the “suggested” Steps. He pointed out that it was “suggested” I practice the Twelve Steps, if I wanted to save my life. I remember my sponsor’s answer when I told him that the Steps were “suggested.” He replied that they are “suggested” in the same way that, if you were to jump out of a airplane with a parachute, it is “suggested” that you pull the ripcord to save your life. A.A.’s manner of making ready to receive this gift lies in the practice of the Twelve Steps in our program.” Our Twelfth Step also says that as a result of practicing all the Steps, we have each found something called a spiritual awakening.
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