AA DAILY REFLECTION JUNE 6 FREE

All by coming to know our mistakes The gift of recovery is not being free from mistakes. In step Five, we admit our mistakes to God, ourselves, and another person. In Step Four, half of our work is to think of our mistakes. Our Twelve Step program helps us learn and grow from our mistakes. But our mistakes can be very good teachers. We have a hard time looking at our mistakes. So why is it so hard to admit out own? We seem to think we have to be prefect. When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.Įveryone makes mistakes. I’ll realize today that I have a bond with others and that I can achieve my highest good only in mutual service with them. That’s when mutal aid will carry the day for us and perhaps even save our lives. There are times when we will feel helpless and alone. We must know, however, that we need the assistance and loving help of others for our highest growth. We should not dismiss the idea of self-help or of doing one’s best in achieving self-improvement. Self-help says, “I can do it,” where as mutual aid says… “WE can do it.” With mutual aid, we do help ourselves, but we hve found that the best way to do this is by helping each other.

Mutual aid is a much different sort of thing. Self-help implies that an individual will help himself or herself. This falls short of describing what it really is. The Twelve step movement is sometimes called a self-help program. If they are too noisy or troublesome, amiably keep out of their way.” “Just kid the boys along–ask them if they are having fun. After all, why should people who are drinking tell people who are dry how it should be done? “It does not seem to pay to argue with ‘slippers’ about the proper method of getting dry. Alcohol always threatens the individual, but we know that it cannot destroy the common welfare. Today, though slips are a very serious difficulty, as a group we take them in stride. We would all look at each other and say, “Who next?” Others would stay dry six months or maybe a year and then take a skid. At first nearly every alcoholic we approached began to slip, if indeed he sobered up at all. I pray that I may continually thank God for all His blessings.Īn early fear was that of slips or relapses. I pray that I may try to love God and all people. Say “Thank you, God,” until it becomes a habit. Love for God acknowledges His gifts and leaves the way open for God to shower yet more blessings on your thankful heart. it is the result of gratitude to God and it is the acknowledgment of the blessing that God has sent you. Try to love your family and your friends and then try to love everybody that you possibly can, even the “sinners and publicans” everybody. Love is the power that transforms your life. I’m positive I don’t miss these things, am I not? Some more things I do not miss since becoming dry: running all over town to find a bar open to get that “pick-me-up” meeting my friends and trying to cover up that I feel awful looking at myself in a mirror and calling myself a dam* fool struggling with myself to snap out of it for two or three days wondering what it is all about. I must search out and be ready for the currents, and that’s where prayer and meditation help! Because I am, of myself, nothing, I ask God to grant me the knowledge of His will and the power and courage to carry it out – today. It’s not easy to know God’s will in each circumstance. That insight granted me the willingness to pray the Seventh Step prayer. I realized that if the bird “took back his will” and tried to fly with less trust, on its power alone, it would spoil its apparent free flight. It was an inspiring example of a fellow creature “letting go” to a power greater than itself. Swept along, swooping and soaring, the bird did things seemingly impossible for mortal birds to do. I watched it suddenly give itself up to the powerful air currents of the mountains. I was outside, praying for willingness, when I raised my eyes and saw a huge bird rising in the sky. Now I was stuck on Step Six and, in despair, I picked up the Big Book and read this passage. Steps Four and Five were difficult, but worthwhile. We have emphasized willingness as being indispensable.

Aa daily reflection june 6