alcoholics anonymous
December 2008 
WE DIE TO LIVE
Posted on Aug 20th, 2008
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Thoughtfood for Wednesday, August 20, 2008
From the Big Book:
"This is the how and why of it. First of all, we had to quit playing God. It didn't work. Next, we decided that hereafter in this drama of life, God was going to be our Director. He is the Principal; we are His agents. He is the Father, and we are His children. Most good ideas are simple, and this concept was the keystone of the new and triumphant arch through which we passed to freedom."
c.1939 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, How It Works, p. 62
Prayer for the day:
" I pray that I may not look back.
I pray that I may keep picking myself up and making a fresh start each day."
c. 1975, Hazelden foundation, Twenty-Four Hours A Day, Aug 20.
Quote for the day:
"Action is eloquence." __William Shakespeare
My share:
I am often turned off by the seemingly insincere proselytizing by so-called "born again" Christians. But the idea that one can be truly born again, to have two lifetimes in one, cannot be clearer in the lives of recovered alcoholics. For those of us who know what it was like then and what it's like now, "born again" is an apt description. Be Good To You, Dave
WE DIE TO LIVE
That is a beautiful paradox straight out of the Biblical idea
of being "born again" or "in losing one's life to find it."
When we work at our Twelve Steps, the old life of guzzling and fuzzy thinking,
and all that goes with it, gradually dies, and we acquire
a different and better way of life.
As our shortcomings are removed,
one life of us dies, and another life of us lives.
We in AA die to live.
© 2003 AAWS, Experience, Strength and Hope, p.156
That is a beautiful paradox straight out of the Biblical idea
of being "born again" or "in losing one's life to find it."
When we work at our Twelve Steps, the old life of guzzling and fuzzy thinking,
and all that goes with it, gradually dies, and we acquire
a different and better way of life.
As our shortcomings are removed,
one life of us dies, and another life of us lives.
We in AA die to live.
© 2003 AAWS, Experience, Strength and Hope, p.156
From the Big Book:
"This is the how and why of it. First of all, we had to quit playing God. It didn't work. Next, we decided that hereafter in this drama of life, God was going to be our Director. He is the Principal; we are His agents. He is the Father, and we are His children. Most good ideas are simple, and this concept was the keystone of the new and triumphant arch through which we passed to freedom."
c.1939 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, How It Works, p. 62
Prayer for the day:
" I pray that I may not look back.
I pray that I may keep picking myself up and making a fresh start each day."
c. 1975, Hazelden foundation, Twenty-Four Hours A Day, Aug 20.
Quote for the day:
"Action is eloquence." __William Shakespeare
My share:
I am often turned off by the seemingly insincere proselytizing by so-called "born again" Christians. But the idea that one can be truly born again, to have two lifetimes in one, cannot be clearer in the lives of recovered alcoholics. For those of us who know what it was like then and what it's like now, "born again" is an apt description. Be Good To You, Dave
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