Daily Reflections

[CarolD]

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LIVING IT

The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 83

When new in the program, I couldn't comprehend living the spiritual aspect of the program, but now that I'm sober, I can't comprehend living without it. Spirituality was what I had been seeking. God, as I understand Him, has given me answers to the whys that kept me drinking for twenty years. By living a spiritual life, by asking God for help, I have learned to love, care for and feel compassion for all my fellow men, and to feel joy in a world where, before, I felt only fear.
Alcoholics Anonymous is the easier, softer way.


Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.

[McGowdog]

In the spirit of "The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it." ... I've been working with taking statements out of the book and NOT answering them right away.

I think we have been so conditioned to answer a question as soon as it's asked. I've been to Big Book studies. I've sat in meetings and listened to other people share. You have to sort out what they say from their actual experience in the thing sometimes. And I'm sure they do the same with me. Sometimes, I just feel it, like I'm speaking truth. Other times, I think I get to trying to portray some image or some philosophy of the time. Then it's just BS and other people know it.

I'm working with A.A. not being a philosophy or a theology or dogma. If you do certain things you get a certain result.

I was promised that this program works. I was promised that this program is about obtaining and enlarging my conscious contact with God. So it works. And it always works. If I drink or slip, I do so willfully.

I'm not a cannot. I'm a will not or I'm a will do.

A.A. is merely a set of instructions... for me. That's what I'm working with and it's what I've been shown.