Let me bring out the good in others.Īction for the Day: Today, I’ll list the people I’m closest to at work, school, and home. Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me see others clearly, and in their best light. But we can know these things without gossiping about them. We see their strong points and their weak points. As we work our program to see ourselves better, we begin to see other people more clearly too. This doesn’t mean we have to say everyone is wonderful all the time. The things we say about other people tell a lot about us. Our friends worry what we might say about them behind their backs. When we do this, it makes us look bad too. Sometimes we say bad things about others. To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. I’ll be more open-minded and willing today. My prejudices and fears of the past kept me from listening to people who would have helped me. As we become more open-minded and willing, we can listen more and learn more. We can find wonderful ideas in all sorts of places and from all types of people. That’s why business organizations have to select sales people carefully customers will respond to some people, but not to others.Īs we grow in sobriety, however, we develop the willingness to listen to people we would have once avoided. We can’t answer that question, except to say that most human beings are willing to listen only to certain people at certain times. Why is it that we’ll accept information from some people but not from others? Many people tried to advise us while we were drinking why would we listen only to recovering alcoholics? I can remember how the agonies of alcoholism, the pain of rebellion and thwarted pride, have often led me to God’s grace, and so to a new freedom. I find the willingness to do this by contemplating the lessons learned from past suffering–lessons which have led to the blessings I now enjoy. Though I still find it difficult to accept today’s pain and anxiety with any great degree of serenity–as those more advanced in the spiritual life seem able to do–I can give thanks for present pain nevertheless. I pray that I may follow the inner urging of my soul. I pray that I may follow the dictates of my conscience. They say to you in the stillness of your heart and mind and soul: “Do this and live.” These are the words of eternal life which express the true way you are to live. They are the words from God which are heard by you in your heart and mind when these are wide open to His spirit. ![]() “Lord, to whom shall we go but to Thee? Thou hast the words of eternal life.” The words of eternal life are the words from God controlling your true being, controlling the real spiritual you. “Herein lies our growth, herein lies all the promise of the future, and ever-widening horizon.” Do I carry the A.A. We give our whole lives to God and we try to do His will in every respect. We do not give one compartment of our lives to God and keep the other compartments to ourselves. We do not just practice these principles in regard to our drinking problem. It is the carrying on of the whole program. ![]() ![]() This part of the twelfth step must not be overlooked. We must practice these principles in all our affairs. I am dealing with my disease, for which there is no cure, only daily acceptance and vigilance. I am not playing a game in which a loss is a temporary setback. Alcohol will surely kill me if I fail to recognize and acknowledge my disease on a daily basis. My alcoholism lives within me now and forever. If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion that someday we will be immune to alcohol. ![]() We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: “Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic.” Commencing to drink after a period of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever.
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