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Daily Reflections « Thread Started on Nov 6, 2009, 1:02pm »
Daily Reflections November 6
GOING WITH THE FLOW
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 96
The first words I speak when arising in the morning are, "I arise, O God, to do Thy will." This is the shortest prayer I know and it is deeply ingrained in me. Prayer doesn't change God's attitude toward me; it changes my attitude toward God. As distinguished from prayer, meditation is a quiet time, without words. To be centered is to be physically relaxed, emotionally calm, mentally focused and spiritually aware. One way to keep the channel open and to improve my conscious contact with God is to maintain a grateful attitude. On the days when I am grateful, good things seem to happen in my life. The instant I start cursing things in my life, however, the flow of good stops. God did not interrupt the flow; my own negativity did.
We have found much of heaven and we have been rocketed into the fourth dimension of existence of which we had not even dreamed. ~Alcoholic Anonymous Pg. 25
Joined: Oct 2009 Gender: Female Posts: 143 Location: The South Karma: 1
Re: Daily Reflections « Reply #1 on Nov 16, 2009, 3:08am »
A DAILY REPRIEVE
What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 85
Maintaining my spiritual condition is like working out every day, planning for the marathon, swimming laps, jogging. It's staying in good shape spiritually, and that requires prayer and meditation. The single most important way for me to improve my conscious contact with a Higher Power is to pray and meditate. I am as powerless over alcohol as I am to turn back the waves of the sea; no human force had the power to overcome my alcoholism. Now I am able to breathe the air of joy, happiness and wisdom. I have the power to love and react to events around me with the eyes of a faith in things that are not readily apparent. My daily reprieve means that, no matter how difficult or painful things appear today, I can draw on the power of the program to stay liberated from my cunning, baffling and powerful illness.
We have found much of heaven and we have been rocketed into the fourth dimension of existence of which we had not even dreamed. ~Alcoholic Anonymous Pg. 25
Re: Daily Reflections « Reply #2 on Nov 16, 2009, 10:01am »
Really like this last one. I am a firm believer that what I did yesterday, last week, or a month ago, isn't going to keep me sober in today. This is a 24 hour a day program. One day's feelings, thoughts, actions, mistakes, misunderstandings, dreams, etc. and I don't have to do it alone. My Higher Power is with me if I make the decision to take Him with me on my daily journey.
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