Jun
23
TRUSTING OTHERS
June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
But does trust require that we be blind to other people’s motives or, indeed, to our own? Not at all; this would be folly. Most certainly, we should assess the capacity for harm as well as the capability for good in every person that we would trust. Such a private inventory can reveal the degree [...]
Jun
22
TODAY, I’M FREE
June 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This brought me to the good healthy realization that there were plenty of situations left in the world over which I had no personal power–that if I was so ready to admit that to be the case with alcohol, so I must make the same admission with respect to much else. I would have to [...]
Jun
21
FEAR AND FAITH
June 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The achievement of freedom from fear is a lifetime undertaking, one that can never be wholly completed. When under heavy attack, acute illness, or in other condition of insecurity, we shall all react to this emotion - well or badly, as the case may be. Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear. AS [...]
Jun
20
RELEASE FROM FEAR
June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The problem of resolving fear has two aspects. We shall have to try for all the freedom from fear that is possible for us to attain. Then we shall need to find both the courage and grace to deal constructively with whatever fears remain. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 61
Most of my decisions were based [...]
Jun
19
“A.A. REGENERATION”
June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one’s old life as a condition for finding a new one. A.A. COMES OF AGE, p. 46
A thousand beatings by John Barleycorn did not encourage me to admit defeat. I believed it was my moral obligation to [...]
Jun
18
A FELLOWSHIP OF FREEDOM
June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
. . . if only men were granted absolute liberty, and were compelled to obey no one, they would then voluntarily associate themselves in the common interest. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 50
When I no longer live under the dictates of another or of alcohol, I live in a new freedom. When I release the [...]
Jun
17
DEEP DOWN WITHIN US
June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment
We found the Great Reality deep down within us. In the last analysis it is only there that He may be found . . . search diligently within yourself . . . With this attitude you cannot fail. The consciousness of your belief is sure to come to you. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 55
It was [...]