#Aa daily reflection tuesday june 7 full#

Twelve Step programs bring together people who admit certain behaviors that society often views with pity or contempt. I’ll say a simple prayer for each of them. Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me stop using anger, resentments and hate for control over other people and advents I don’t like.Īction for the Day: I’ll list all the people I’m angry at. And our serenity will grow as we see that anger no longer has so much power over our actions. This why, we use our energy in a healthy way.

That’s why we we’re to pray for those who have wronged us, so our hearts don’t fill with hate. We can get rid of resentments and hate through prayer and helping others. We get a false sense of power from being angry. “We recovered alcoholics are not so much brothers in virtue as we are brothers in our defects, and in our common strivings to overcome them.”ĪA states that resentments is the “number one offender” among our members, that it puts more alcoholics in the graves than any other thing. We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection. The principles we have set down are guides to progress. The point is that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines. No one among us has been able to maintain anything like perfect adherence to these principles. On studying the Twelve Steps, many of us exclaimed, “What an order! I can’t go through with it.” Do not be discouraged. I pray that I may seek God early and often. I pray that I may not let God be crowded out by the hurly-burly of life. People often only seek God when their difficulties are too great to be surmounted in any other way, forgetting that if they sought God’s companionship before they need it, many of their difficulties would never arise. Seek God early, when you can have a consciousness of God’s spirit in the world. Do not seek God only when the world’s struggles prove too much and too many for you to bear or face alone. In that early quiet time gain a calm, strong confidence in the goodness and purpose in the universe. Seek God early in the day, before He gets crowded out by life’s problems, difficulties, or pleasures. Does service to others give me a real purpose in life? To be of service to other people makes our lives worth living. The Sea of Galilee is clear and clean and blue, as the Jordan River carries it out to irrigate the desert.

#Aa daily reflection tuesday june 7 full#

The Dead Sea has no outlet and it is stagnant and full of salt. We must give this thing away if we want to keep it. The sharing of self joins me to the human race and brings me closer to God, as I understand Him. I can be spiritual in the sharing of myself. Often I find the human spirit in various dogmas and faiths. Open-mindedness to concepts of a Higher Power can open doors to the spirit. To us, the realm of spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive, never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek. We have found that God does not make too hard terms with those who seek Him.