We perhaps felt strong, secure, on top of things last week, or yesterday. Each day that we choose sobriety, that we choose abstinence from pills or food, we are moving more securely toward mental health as a stable condition. We may feel crazy, unable to cope and certain that we have made no progress throughout this period of recovery. Frequently, a single problem or many problems overwhelm us. We’re responsible for the effort but not the outcome. Mental health, like dandruff, crops up when you least expect it. Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me remember the best harmony comes when I sing from Your songbook.Īction for the Day: Today, I’ll make choices that are in line with who I am. No wonder over lives are coming together! No wonder we feel more peace, harmony, and happiness! We’re asking our High Power to help us to be our best. We’re looking at ourselves closely-at what we believe, what we feel, what we like to do, who we are. The Twelve Steps help us clean up the mess we’ve made. Sometimes we sat we’re getting out lives together. Things might work themselves out if I simply let natural forces work properly in every situation.īut what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads. I’ll remember today not to push or pull too hard to get my way.
The secret, then, is to do our part and act prudently, but also to be willing to let things happen. If we’re living on a spiritual basis and following our 12 Step program, lots of unpleasant conditions will clear up without any strain or struggle on our part. Situations often work themselves out when we stop pushing and pulling too hard. Many times, we cling too tightly to conditions that could simply right themselves if we would only let go. Continue to hold the stick back, and you cause a fatal spin. Student pilots learn a simple method for getting an airplane out of a stall Release the stick forward, and the airplane rights itself. For us, material well-being always follows spiritual progress it never precedes. As our drinking became worse, money was only an urgent requirement which could supply us with the next drink and the temporary comfort of oblivion it brought.
Money was the symbol of pleasure and self-importance. Without realizing it, we were just accumulating funds for the next spree.
In our drinking time, we acted as if the money supply were inexhaustible, though between binges we’d sometimes go to the other extreme and become miserly. I pray that I may delay action until I feel that I am doing the right thing. In the momentous decisions and crises of life, they may ask God’s guidance, but into the small situations of life, they rush alone. I must learn, in the little daily situations of life, to delay action until I am sure that I am doing the right thing at the right time. It is always a temptation to do something at once, instead of waiting until the proper time. I must learn not to do things at the wrong time, that is, before I am ready or before conditions are right. So by honestly facing our weakness and keeping ever present the knowledge that for us alcoholism is a disease with which we are afflicted, we can take the necessary steps to arrest it. We admit that we are alcoholics and we would be foolish if we refused to accept our handicap and do something about it. When we are honest about its presence, we may discover that it is imaginary and can be overcome by a change of thinking.
Aa daily reflection june 6 how to#
We must know the nature of our weakness before we can determine how to deal with it. The warmth, the love and the joy so simply expressed in these words grow in breadth and depth each time I read it. It “truly does get better” one day at a time. However, by applying this passage to my sobriety, I found that it described the magnificent new life made available to me by the A.A. The longer I chased these elusive feelings with alcohol, the more out of reach they were.
It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good. It means release from care, boredom and worry. For most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship and colorful imagination.
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