AA Thought for the Day

September 9, 2002

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New Dimension

We have to find a life in the world of grace and spirit,
and this is certainly a new dimension for most of us...
Our conscious entry into it usually begins as soon
as we have deeply confessed our personal
powerlessness to go on alone,
and have made our appeal to whatever God
we think there is--or may be.
The gift of faith and the consciousness of a higher power
is the outcome.
As faith grows, so does inner security.
The vast underlying fear of nothingness
commences to subside.
Therefore we of AA find that our basic antidote for fear
is a spiritual awakening.

Reprinted from The Language of the Heart, Page 267, From the Grapevine. Reprinted with permission of The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

Thought to Ponder....

The solution is simple. The solution is spiritual.

Recovery Related Acronym

F E A R = Face Everything And Recover.

A Member Shares...

I'm Mike, an alcoholic.

I looked everywhere for God except within me. Deep in a bottle is where I looked longest. The Twelve Steps and the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous freed me from that obsession by a program of hope and action. It is a new way of life. In the end, down in the depths of me, I found the God of my understanding. The allergy and disease of alcoholism will be with until my physical death. The love of the God of my understanding lasts for eternity.
- Mike

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