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Aa daily reflections july 149/2/2023 ![]() ![]() The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. The idea that somehow, some day, he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker. I pray that I may always keep an expectant attitude toward life. I pray that I may await with complete faith for the next good thing in store for me. A good life is a growing expanding life, with ever-widening horizons, an ever-greater circle of friends and acquaintances, and an ever-greater opportunity for usefulness. The way to grow old happily is to expect better things right up to the end of your life and even beyond that. Believe that what God has in store for you is better than anything you ever had before. directed beam, they are in danger of crashing against the mountain peak of despair. If they swing off course into drunkenness, the signal stops. If they have a slip, the signal is broken. As long as they keep on this beam, the signal of sobriety keeps coming through. I need to pray for knowledge of God’s will today, and see how my experience with hope and pain can help other people if I can do that, I don’t need to search for humility, it has found me. I try to remember now that the people I meet in the course of my day are as close to God as I am ever going to get while on this earth. I didn’t realize I was looking for humility because I thought it would help me get what I wanted, and I would do anything for others if I thought God would somehow reward me for it. When I first came to A.A., I wanted to find some of the elusive quality called humility. That basic ingredient of all humility, a desire to seek and do God’s will, was missing. As long as we placed self-reliance first, a genuine reliance upon a Higher Power was out of the question. ![]()
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