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newby1961 · 10-30-2012, 05:55 AM

Twenty-Four Hours A Day
October 30, 2012

A.A. Thought For The Day

I have real friends, where I had none before. My drinking companions could hardly be called my real friends, though when drunk we seemed to have the closest kind of friendship. My idea of friendship has changed. Friends are no longer people whom I can use for my own pleasure or profit. Friends are now people who understand me and I them, whom I can help and who can help me to live a better life. I have learned not to hold back and wait for friends to come to me, but to go half way and to be met half way, openly and freely. Does friendship have new meaning for me?

Meditation For The Day

There is a time for everything. We should learn to wait patiently until the right time comes. Easy does it. We waste our energies in trying to get things before we are ready to have them, before we have earned the right to receive them. A great lesson we have to learn is how to wait with patience. We can believe that all our life is a preparation for something better to come when we have earned the right to it. We can believe that God has a plan for our lives and that this plan will work out in the fullness of time.

Prayer For The Day

I pray that I may learn the lesson of waiting patiently. I pray that I may not expect things until I have earned the right to have them.

(Twenty-Four Hours a Day) Hazelden Foundation 2012

IndaMiricale · 10-30-2012, 06:49 AM

fellowship.

StrictScrutiny · 10-30-2012, 03:01 PM

Ah, patience. What a great prayer for today - it's definitely what I needed. Thanks

10-30-2012, 05:55 AM	#1 (permalink)
newby1961 Trudging that road. Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Seattle Wa Posts: 6,837 Blog Entries: 1	Twenty-Four Hours a Day Twenty-Four Hours A Day October 30, 2012 A.A. Thought For The Day I have real friends, where I had none before. My drinking companions could hardly be called my real friends, though when drunk we seemed to have the closest kind of friendship. My idea of friendship has changed. Friends are no longer people whom I can use for my own pleasure or profit. Friends are now people who understand me and I them, whom I can help and who can help me to live a better life. I have learned not to hold back and wait for friends to come to me, but to go half way and to be met half way, openly and freely. Does friendship have new meaning for me? Meditation For The Day There is a time for everything. We should learn to wait patiently until the right time comes. Easy does it. We waste our energies in trying to get things before we are ready to have them, before we have earned the right to receive them. A great lesson we have to learn is how to wait with patience. We can believe that all our life is a preparation for something better to come when we have earned the right to it. We can believe that God has a plan for our lives and that this plan will work out in the fullness of time. Prayer For The Day I pray that I may learn the lesson of waiting patiently. I pray that I may not expect things until I have earned the right to have them. (Twenty-Four Hours a Day) Hazelden Foundation 2012

10-30-2012, 06:49 AM	#2 (permalink)
IndaMiricale Powerless over Alcohol Join Date: May 2011 Location: Trudging the Road to Happy Destiny! Posts: 4,020	fellowship. __________________ "The only real thing in life are dreams, which nature cant touch with decay." Bob Dylan "Each day,somewhere in the world ,recovery begins when one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic , sharing experience,strength and hope."

10-30-2012, 03:01 PM	#3 (permalink)
StrictScrutiny Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 24	Ah, patience. What a great prayer for today - it's definitely what I needed. Thanks __________________ "There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.” -- Dalai Lama XIV

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