If we’re not careful, it can grow into a way of life. Having an attitude of failure can’t help us. Just for today, I will take part in that which will obviously benefit everyone.įailure is an attitude. We can correct this by getting back to the basics of the program and pursing self-improvement rather than self-indulgence. If it harms us or others, something is wrong. If our conduct leads to long-term happiness and higher self-esteem, it is probably right. There is no easy way to test whether our selfishness is the right kind. The sick brand of selfishness, on the other hand, is usually involved in unhealthy competition with others. The person who seeks self-improvement is competing only against his or her former self. One is a giving of ourselves, the other is frantic taking that leads to destruction. The selfishness we need for recovery is a devotion to self-improvement, rather than the selfish indulgence that made us sick. How can selfishness be both good and bad?
We’re told again and again that we have to be selfish about our own recovery, but this seems to be in conflict with the fact that selfishness is the root of our problem. Such was the new and positive assurance, and this has never left me. No matter what had been the consequences of my own willfulness and ignorance, or those of my fellow travelers on earth, this was still the truth. At once I became a part-if only a tiny part-of a cosmos that was ruled by justice and love in the person of God. My spiritual awakening was electrically sudden and absolutely convincing. This brave philosophy, wherein each man played God, sounded good in the speaking, but it still had to meet the acid test: How well did it actually work? One good look in the mirror was answer enough. While drinking, we were certain that our intelligence, backed by willpower, could rightly control our inner lives and guarantee us success in the world around us. I pray that I may never make anyone feel repulsed or unwanted. I pray that I may make each visitor desire to return. Today they may not need you, but tomorrow may bring results from the sharing you did today. You may never see the results of your sharing. Take all who come as sent by God and give them a royal welcome. Do all you can for others and back will come countless stores of blessings.
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Give freely with a glad, free heart and hand. Share your love, your joy, your happiness, your time, your food. Am I depending on the grace of God to help keep me sober? That made sense to us and we made up our minds to try it.
We heard speakers tell how they had come to depend on a Power greater than themselves.
meeting, we looked up at the wall at the end of the room and saw the sign: “But for the Grace of God.” We knew right then and there that we would have to call on the grace of God in order to get sober and get over our soul-sickness. is not something I joined it’s something I live.
Then I try to live an “attitude of gratitude” and thoroughly enjoy another twenty-four hours of the A.A. My sponsor told me that I should be a grateful alcoholic and always have “an attitude of gratitude”-that gratitude was the basic ingredient of humility, that humility was the basic ingredient of anonymity, and that “anonymity was the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.” As a result of his guidance, I start every morning on my knees, thanking God for three things: I’m alive, I’m sober, and I’m a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion that we can ever know.”
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