BordnBeachBill Posted December 11, 2018 Report Share Posted December 11, 2018 Way to go Mick, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Digger in Va Posted December 12, 2018 Report Share Posted December 12, 2018 A.A. Thought for the Day The clergy speak of the spiritual fellowship of the church. This is much closer to the A.A. way than mere group therapy. Such a fellowship is based on a common belief in God and a common effort to live a spiritual life. We try to do this in A.A. We also try to get down to the real problems in each others’ lives. We try to open up to each other. We have a real desire to be of service to each other. We try to go deep down into the personal lives of our members. Do I appreciate the deep personal fellowship of A.A.? Meditation for the Day Love and fear cannot dwell together. By their very natures, they cannot exist side by side. Fear is a very strong force. And therefore a weak and vacillating love can soon be routed by fear. But a strong love, a love that trusts in God, is sure eventually to conquer fear. The only sure way to dispel fear is to have the love of God more and more in your heart and soul. Prayer for the Day I pray that love will drive out the fear in my life. I pray that my fear will flee before the power of the love of God. DiggerinVa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickAff Posted December 12, 2018 Report Share Posted December 12, 2018 I've done more in 4 weeks, than I ever did the last 8+ years MattituckMike 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenleaf79 Posted December 12, 2018 Report Share Posted December 12, 2018 5 hours ago, MickAff said: I've done more in 4 weeks, than I ever did the last 8+ years Nice work! It only gets better! MickAff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digger in Va Posted December 13, 2018 Report Share Posted December 13, 2018 A.A. Thought for the Day We come now to A.A. fellowship. It is partly group therapy. It is partly spiritual fellowship. But it is even more. It is based on a common illness, a common failure, a common problem. It goes deep down into our personal lives and our personal needs. It requires a full opening up to each other of our inmost thoughts and most secret problems. All barriers between us are swept aside. They have to be. Then we try to help each other get well. The A.A. fellowship is based on a sincere desire to help each other get well. The A.A. fellowship is based on a sincere desire to help the other person. In A.A. we can be sure of sympathy, understanding, and real help. These things make the A.A. fellowship the best that we know. Do I fully appreciate the depth of the A.A. fellowship? Meditation for the Day The Higher Power can guide us to the right decisions if we pray about them. We can believe that many details of our lives are planned by God and planned with a wealth of forgiving love for the mistakes we have made. We can pray today to be shown the right way. We can choose the good, and when we choose it, we can feel that the whole power of the universe is behind us. We can achieve a real harmony with God’s purpose for our lives. Prayer for the Day I pray that I may choose aright today. I pray that I may be shown the right way to live today. DiggerinVa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digger in Va Posted December 14, 2018 Report Share Posted December 14, 2018 A.A. Thought for the Day The way of A.A. is the way of service. Without that, it would not work. We have been “on the wagon” and hated it. We have taken the pledge and waited for the time to be up with impatience. We have tried in all manner of ways to help ourselves. But not until we begin to help other people do we get full relief. It is an axiom that the A.A. program has to be given away in order to be kept. A river flows into the Dead Sea and stops. A river flows into a clear pool and flows out again. We get and then we give. If we do not give, we do not keep. Have I given up all ideas of holding A.A. for myself alone? Meditation for the Day Try to see the life of the spirit as a calm place, shut away from the turmoil of the world. Think of your spiritual home as a place full of peace, serenity, and contentment. Go to this quiet, meditative place for the strength to carry you through today’s duties and problems. Keep coming back here for refreshment when you are weary of the hubbub of the outside world. From this quietness and communion comes our strength. Prayer for the Day I pray that I may keep this resting place where I can commune with God. I pray that I may find refreshment in meditation on the Eternal. DiggerinVa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digger in Va Posted December 15, 2018 Report Share Posted December 15, 2018 A.A. Thought for the Day Service to others makes the world a good place. Civilization would cease if all of us were always and only for ourselves. We alcoholics have a wonderful opportunity to contribute to the well-being of the world. We have a common problem. We find a common answer. We are uniquely equipped to help others with the same problem. What a wonderful world it would be if we took our own greatest problem and found the answer to it and spent the rest of our lives helping others with the same problem in our spare time. Soon we would have the right kind of a world. Do I appreciate my unique opportunity to be of service? Meditation for the Day Today can be lived in the consciousness of God’s contact, upholding you in all good thoughts, words, and deeds. If sometimes there seems to be a shadow on your life and you feel out of sorts, remember that this is not the withdrawal of God’s presence, but only your own temporary unwillingness to realize it. The quiet gray days are the days for doing what you must do, but know that the consciousness of God’s nearness will return and be with you again, when the gray days are past. Prayer for the Day I pray that I may face the dull days with courage. I pray that I may have faith that the bright days will return. DiggerinVa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digger in Va Posted December 16, 2018 Report Share Posted December 16, 2018 A.A. Thought for the Day The way of A.A. is the way of faith. We don’t get the full benefit of the program until we surrender our lives to some Power greater than ourselves and trust that Power to give us the strength we need. There is no better way for us. We can get sober without it. We can stay sober for some time without it. But if we are going to truly live, we must take the way of faith in God. That is the path for us. We must follow it. Have I taken the way of faith? Meditation for the Day Life is not a search for happiness. Happiness is a by-product of living the right kind of a life, of doing the right thing. Do not search for happiness, search for right living and happiness will be your reward. Life is sometimes a march of duty during dull, dark days. But happiness will come again, as God’s smile of recognition of your faithfulness. True happiness is always the by-product of a life well lived. Prayer for the Day I pray that I may not seek happiness but seek to do right. I pray that I may not seek pleasure so much as the things that bring true happiness. DiggerinVa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMc Posted December 16, 2018 Report Share Posted December 16, 2018 I often wonder how the OP, George, is doing these days. You know it must be a penguin bound down if you hear that terrible screaming and there ain't no other birds around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digger in Va Posted December 17, 2018 Report Share Posted December 17, 2018 A.A. Thought for the Day The way of faith is, of course, not confined to A.A. It is for everybody who really wants to live. But many people can go through life without much of it. Many are doing so, to their own sorrow. The world is full of lack of faith. Many people have lost confidence in any meaning in the universe. Many are wondering if it has any meaning at all. Many are at loose ends. Life has no goal for many. They are strangers in the land. They are not at home. But for us in A.A., the way of faith is the way of life. We have proved by our past lives that we could not live without it. Do I think I could live happily without faith? Meditation for the Day “He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends the rain on the just and the unjust.” God does not interfere with the working of natural laws. The laws of nature are unchangeable, otherwise we could not depend on them. As far as natural laws are concerned, God makes no distinction between good and bad people. Sickness or death may strike anywhere. But spiritual laws are also made to be obeyed. Our choice of good or evil depends on whether we go upward to true success and victory in life or downward to loss and defeat. Prayer for the Day I pray that I may choose today the way of the spiritual life. I pray that I may live today with faith and hope and love. DiggerinVa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digger in Va Posted December 17, 2018 Report Share Posted December 17, 2018 19 hours ago, MikeMc said: I often wonder how the OP, George, is doing these days. Good question? DiggerinVa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digger in Va Posted December 18, 2018 Report Share Posted December 18, 2018 A.A. Thought for the Day Unless we have the key of faith to unlock the meaning of life, we are lost. We do not choose faith because it is one way for us, but because it is the only way. Many have failed and will fail. For we cannot live victoriously without faith; we are at sea without a rudder or an anchor, drifting on the sea of life. Wayfarers without a home. Our souls are restless until they find rest in God. Without faith, our lives are a meaningless succession of unrelated happenings, without rhyme or reason. Have I come to rest in faith? Meditation for the Day This vast universe around us, including this wonderful earth on which we live, was once perhaps only a thought in the mind of God. The nearer the astronomers and the physicists get to the ultimate composition of all things, the nearer the universe approaches a mathematical formula, which is thought. The universe may be the thought of the Great Thinker. We must try to think God’s thoughts after Him. We must try to get guidance from the Divine Mind as to what His intention is for the world and what part we can have in carrying out that intention. Prayer for the Day I pray that I may not worry over the limitations of my human mind. I pray that I may live as though my mind were a reflection of the Divine Mind. DiggerinVa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swanney Posted December 18, 2018 Report Share Posted December 18, 2018 On 12/16/2018 at 10:00 AM, MikeMc said: I often wonder how the OP, George, is doing these days. I've wondered about him too. When I think about it, he is the person who has most helped me get a better life. If he didn't post first then all you other posters who guided me (whether they know it or not) would not have contributed to my program (this thread). Thank you, everyone. Here's to George aka g2h. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digger in Va Posted December 19, 2018 Report Share Posted December 19, 2018 A.A. Thought for the Day The skeptic and the agnostic say it is impossible for us to find the answer to life. Many have tried and failed. But many more have put aside intellectual pride and have said to themselves: Who am I to say there is no God? Who am I to say there is no purpose in life? The atheist makes a declaration: “The world originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.” Others live for the moment and do not even think about why they are here or where they are going. They might as well be clams on the bottom of the ocean, protected by their hard shells of indifference. They are going nowhere and they do not care. Do I care where I am going? Meditation for the Day We may consider the material world as the clay which the artist works with, to make of it something beautiful or ugly. We need not fear material things, which are neither good nor bad in the moral sense. There seems to be no active force for evil—outside of human beings themselves. Humans alone can have either evil intentions—resentments, malevolence, hate, and revenge—or good intentions—love and goodwill. They can make something ugly or something beautiful out of the clay of their lives. Prayer for the Day I pray that I may make something good out of my life. I pray that I may be a good artisan with the materials that I have been given to use. DiggerinVa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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