Daily Reflections

[CarolD]

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NEW SOIL . . . NEW ROOTS

Moments of perception can build into a lifetime of spiritual serenity, as I have excellent reason to know. Roots of reality, supplanting the neurotic underbrush, will hold fast despite the high winds of the forces which would destroy us, or which we would use to destroy ourselves.

AS BILL SEES IT, p. 173

I came to A.A. green -- a seedling quivering with exposed taproots. It was for survival but it was a beginning. I stretched, developed, twisted, but with the help of others, my spirit eventually burst up from the roots. I was free. I acted, withered, went inside, prayed, acted again, understood anew, as one moment of perception struck. Up from my roots, spirit-arms lengthened into strong, green shoots: high-springing servants stepping skyward.

Here on earth God unconditionally continues the legacy of higher love. My A.A. life put me "on a different footing . . . [my] roots grasped a new soil" (Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 12).

Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.

[IO Storm]

"It was for survival but it was a beginning. I stretched, developed, twisted, but with the help of others, my spirit eventually burst up from the roots. I was free. I acted, withered, went inside, prayed, acted again, understood anew, as one moment of perception struck. Up from my roots, spirit-arms lengthened into strong, green shoots: high-springing servants stepping skyward."

My 7th time in..

Instantly free..a miraculous experience, the bottom of bottoms, saved from suicide

in a hotel room..but "it doesn't happen overnight" is so true!

The real work had to start in AA..I knew I was free. No booze or drugs, no cravings.

To keep it, there was the hard work of recovery ahead..no resting on the laurels

of my spiritual experience. I had to go back to the rooms, where I was welcomed

with such warmth and love and start all over again. And start growing.