![]() That meant we had to change and to learn to live sober. We learned and accepted something new about ourselves. … no one who learns to know himself remains just what he was beforeĭeep inside, we all know that we’re changing. I’ll pray for knowledge of God’s will today, while exercising prudence in all my affairs. After all, it is God’s pleasure to give you good things. Seek to do God’s will, and you might be utterly amazed at the results. What, then, should we pray for? “Knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that out,” is a prayer that puts things in proper order. ![]() With the right attitude, we can actually be happy under many kinds of conditions and with all sorts of people. Our true happiness comes from our Higher Power and the right combination of love and service. Let’s take an inventory if we find ourselves thinking that our happiness depends on certain people, places, or things. Our bitter experiences with alcohol can also furnish lessons about the kinds of goals we should strive for in sobriety. Such disillusionment has been the stuff of countless morality tales. What often happens, unfortunately, is that we seek things that turn out to be shallow and even harmful after we get them. The goal must be something few want to live with once it is achieved. ![]() Prayers are currents of thought directed toward a goal. While this sounds exciting, it’s really an important warning. “Be careful what you pray for,” the Old-Timers said, for you are likely to get it. It requires an admission and correction of errors–now. This doesn’t mean we need to wander morbidly around in the past. If we would live serenely today and tomorrow, we certainly need to eliminate these hangovers. That is the emotional hangover, the direct result of yesterday’s and sometimes today’s excesses of negative emotion–anger, fear, jealousy, and the like. But there is another kind of hangover which we all experience whether we are drinking or not. When a drunk has a terrific hangover because he drank heavily yesterday, he cannot live well today. I pray that I may partake of the soul-food which God has provided for me. I pray that I may meet God in quiet communion. ![]() All forms of worship have this communion with God as their purpose and goal. I must grasp at the truth at the center of all worship. I must somehow seek the true bread of life, which is communion with Him. I must somehow find the means of coming nearer to God. Do I know that since I am an alcoholic all liquor is poison to me? Alcohol poisoned our lives for a long time. When we go by package stores and see various kinds of liquor all dressed up in fancy packages to make it look attractive, we should always make it a point to say to ourselves, so that we’ll never forget it: That stuff’s poison to me. Poison is not too strong a word, because alcoholism leads eventually to the death of the alcoholic. ![]() and that I am a miracle.Īlcohol is poison to the alcoholic. I know today that He was the one who led me to A.A. I also found that He had been with me during all those times I had been in trouble before I came to A.A. I found that God was a loving God, not that punishing God I feared before coming to A.A. That gave me faith in the Fellowship, and hope that it could work for me too. They had looked squarely at Step Two and came to believe that a power greater than themselves was restoring them to sanity. I could see the love in their eyes and I was impressed by how much their “One Day at a Time” sobriety meant to them. It was the changes I saw in the new people who came into the Fellowship that helped me lose my fear, and change my negative attitude to a positive one. Some of us won’t believe in God, others can’t, and still others who do not believe that God exists have no faith whatever He will perform this miracle. ![]()
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