7/25/2023 0 Comments Aa daily reflection dec 22![]() What we suffer, what we endure … is done by us, as individuals, in private.Įmpathy we can give. Help me see it, and give it.Īction for the Day: I’ll look three persons in the eye today and send them love in my smile. Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, love comes from You. Every time someone comes to a meeting to get well with us, that is love. How do we fill our needs for love? We can think about this fact: People give us love all the time. Addiction cut us off even more from people. We tried to avoid love by using chemicals to feel good. We feel the need for love more than ever. To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. I will do my best to be fair toward others, but I will like myself regardless of their reactions. I’ll remember today that I have a right to be in the world. In liking ourselves, we feel no need to impress or dazzle others. We will also like ourselves for letting people see us as we are and feel comfortable doing so. We will like ourselves for practicing fairness and honesty. We will like the kind of life we are trying to live. We will truly like ourselves more as we learn to practice the principles of AA. However, if we like ourselves in the right way, others sense this too, and they will be drawn to us. This attitude is easily recognized by others, and it causes them to dislike us. It’s maybe unsettling to learn that we need to like ourselves more, especially when we’ve often been accused of being conceited.īeing conceited does not mean liking oneself it’s really a matter of being smug and contemptuous in our dealing with others. As we persist, a brand-new kind of confidence is born, and the sense of relief at finally facing ourselves is indescribable. ![]() Once we have a complete willingness to take inventory, and exert ourselves to do the job thoroughly, a wonderful light falls upon this foggy scene. Every time he tries to look within himself, Pride says, “You need not pass this way,” and Fear says, “You dare not look!”īut pride and fear of this sort turn out to be bogymen, nothing else. suggests a fearless moral inventory, it must seem to every newcomer that more is being asked of him than he can do. Sometimes I’ve failed to share my defects with the right people at other times, I’ve confessed their defects, rather than my own and still other times, my confession of defects has been more in the nature of loud complaints about my circumstances and my problems. My self-analysis has frequently been faulty. I pray that I may bring my gifts and lay them on the altar. I pray that I may be truly thankful on this Christmas day. Lay them all at the feet of God and let Him have full use of them. Bring your myrrh–your sympathy and understanding and help. Bring your frankincense–the consecration of your life to a worthy cause. “And they presented unto him gifts–gold, frankincense, and myrrh.” Bring your gifts of gold–your money and material possessions. The kingdom of heaven is also for the lowly, the sinners, the repentant. They will be thinking that perhaps God let them live through all the hazards of their drinking careers, when they were perhaps often close to death, in order that they may be used by Him in the great work of A.A. They will be thinking about how their lives have changed when they came into A.A. They will be thanking God for their sobriety and their new found life. Many alcoholics will be saying today: “This is a good Christmas for me.” They will be looking back over the past Christmases which were not like this one. I read this passage each morning, to start off my day, because it is a continual reminder to “practice these principles in all my affairs.” When I keep God’s will at the forefront of my mind, I am able to do what I should be doing, and that puts me at peace with life, with myself and with God. “How can I best serve Thee – Thy will (not mine) be done.” ![]() ![]() Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God’s will into all of our activities.
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