Daily Reflections
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Daily Reflections
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FAMILY OBLIGATIONS
. . . a spiritual life which does not include . . . family obligations may not be so perfect after all.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS p. 129
I can be doing great in the program -- applying it at meetings, at work, and in service activities -- and find that things have gone to pieces at home. I expect my loved ones to understand, but they cannot. I expect them to see and value my progress, but they don't -- unless I show them. Do I neglect their needs and desires for my attention and concern? When I'm around them, am I irritable or boring? Are my "amends" a mumbled "Sorry," or do they take the form of patience and tolerance? Do I preach to them, trying to reform or "fix" them? Have I ever really cleaned house with them? "The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it"
(Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 83).
Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
FAMILY OBLIGATIONS
. . . a spiritual life which does not include . . . family obligations may not be so perfect after all.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS p. 129
I can be doing great in the program -- applying it at meetings, at work, and in service activities -- and find that things have gone to pieces at home. I expect my loved ones to understand, but they cannot. I expect them to see and value my progress, but they don't -- unless I show them. Do I neglect their needs and desires for my attention and concern? When I'm around them, am I irritable or boring? Are my "amends" a mumbled "Sorry," or do they take the form of patience and tolerance? Do I preach to them, trying to reform or "fix" them? Have I ever really cleaned house with them? "The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it"
(Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 83).
Copyright 1990 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WORLD SERVICES, INC.
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