Daily Reflections..Comments Welcomed

[CarolD]

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AN UNSUSPECTED INNER RESOURCE

With few exceptions our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they presently identify with their own conception of a Power greater than themselves.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, pp. 569-70

From my first days in A.A., as I struggled for sobriety, I found hope in these words from our founders. I often pondered the phrase: "they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource." How, I asked myself, can I find the Power within myself, since I am so powerless? In time, as the founders promised, it came to me: I have always had the choice between goodness and evil, between unselfishness and selfishness, between serenity and fear. That Power greater than myself is an original gift that I did not recognize until I achieved daily sobriety through living A.A.'s Twelve Steps.


©Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.©

[CarolD]

I may not always know God's will for me
but I always know His won't.

[Nuudawn]

I needed to read this today...thanks Carol.

....God will always answer your prayers, but sometimes the answer is "no".

[Johneebegood]

Cowardice asks the question--is it the safe thing to do?

Pride asks the question--is it the popular thing to do?

Power asks the question--is it the political expedient thing to do?

But conscience asks the question--is it the right thing to do?

There comes a time when one must take a stand that is neither safe or popular or political expedient but because it is right. God will give us the courage we need to do what is right if we will only turn away from our fears. God's ultimate question is "what are you doing for the good of others?"



--Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

[scaredykat]

Thanks Carol, I'm kind of down today and needed to read that.

Barb