And we are not the persons we were, even as recently as yesterday. These next twenty-four hours will be unlike all others. And I’m thankful for this day.īeing open to the day’s offering, all of it, and looking for the positive experiences therein, becomes habit only after a firm commitment and dedicated practice. I wake each morning with the thrill of expectation and the joy of being truly alive. I’ll work on the Steps on these items for the next week. I am Your student.Īction for the Day: Today, I’ll list the ways I chased away those who cared about me. Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, You are the expert, not me. But we didn’t want to see how sick we were becoming. Why were we so busy with everyone else’s life? So we didn’t have to look at our own! We were afraid of what was happening to us. They were afraid of our judgments, just we were secretly afraid of theirs. Many of us used a “know it all” act to keep people away. There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. If my attitude is right, the impression will take care of itself. I’ll forget about the impressions I’m making. Working to make sure I’m thinking the right way. This attitude will create any good impressions we need to make. We should have others’ best interests at heart without being meddlesome. The way to control the impressions we are making is simply to continue cultivating an attitude that’s consistent with humility, acceptance, and graciousness. Whatever we really feel will be expressed to others as our true character and the impression we give will be authentically us. The secret of making good impressions is contained in one word: ATTITUDE. That’s true, but we always have the opportunity to make good lasting impressions. There’s a saying that we have only one chance to make a good first impression. Right or wrong, we can always profit from the experience.” “But if the decision must be now, let us not evade it through fear. By then, with more knowledge of our situation, logic and intuition may well agree upon a right course. “If, after an exercise of these two disciplines, we are still uncertain, then we should ask for further guidance, and, when possible, defer important decisions for a time. If, in meditation, that voice is persistent enough, we may well gain sufficient confidence to act upon that, rather than upon logic. When there is doubt about our logic, we wait upon God and listen for the voice of intuition. We cannot always depend on what seems to us to be logical. “Not all large decisions can be well made by simply listing the pros and cons of a given situation, helpful and necessary as this process is. I pray that I may learn to depend less on myself and more on God. I pray that I may have enough faith to make me really effective. If you trust Him, God shows you the way to “move mountains.” If you are humble enough to know that you can really do little by yourself to change a situation, if you have enough faith to ask God to give you the power you need, and if you are grateful enough for the grace He gives you, you can “move mountains.” Situations will be changed for the better by your presence. “Faith can move mountains.” That expression means that faith can change any situation in the field of personal relationships. Am I truly tolerant of all my group’s members? principle that is absolutely necessary to group unity. But gossip and criticism are not tolerance, and tolerance is an A.A. We enjoy the privilege of being associated with A.A. We must all pull together or we’ll all be sunk. program is wonderful, but we must really follow it. We should keep everything out in the open and aboveboard. If we feel the need of saying something to put another member on the right track, we should try to say it with understanding and sympathy, not with a critical attitude. It has been proven that an act of surrender, originating in desperation and defeat, can grow into an ongoing act of faith, and that faith means freedom and victory. I am learning to let go and let God, to have a mind that is open and a heart that is willing to receive God’s grace in all my affairs in this way I can experience the peace and freedom that come as a result of surrender. To those of us who have hitherto known only excitement, depression, or anxiety–in other words, to all of us–this newfound peace is a priceless gift. We enjoy moments in which there is something like real peace of mind. By this time in all probability we have gained some measure of release from our more devastating handicaps.
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