Inspiration

Thoughtfood for Friday, October 30, 2009

Inspiration 

Being still inexperienced and having just

made conscious contact with God,

it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times.

We might pay for this presumption in all sorts of

absurd actions and ideas.

Nevertheless, we find that our thinking will,

as time passes,

be more and more on the plane of inspiration. 

We come to rely on it.
-  Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 87

From the Big Book:

"Alcoholics Anonymous is not a religious organization.  Neither does A.A. take any particular medical point of view, though we cooperate widely with the men of medicine as well as with the men of religion.

Alcohol being no respecter of persons, we are an accurate cross section of America, and in distant lands, the same democratic evening-up process is now going on.  By personal religious affiliation, we include Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Hindus, and a sprinkling of Moslems, and Buddhists.  More than 15% of us are women."

c. 1955, AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, Foreward To Second Edition, p. xx.

Prayer for the day:

"I pray that I may learn the lesson of waiting pariently.  I pray that I may not expect things until I have earned the right ot have them."

c. 1975, Hazelden Foundation, Twenty-Four Hours A Day, Oct. 30.

Quote for the day:

"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival."  __Winston Churchill  (British Orator, Author, and Prime Minister during WWII. 1874-1965)

My share:

It seems appropriate that the man who inspired the people of England to bully through the horror of WWII can also provide encouragement to we who struggle through our own private war against an even more formidable foe.  A foe that never dies and cannot be defeated.  Alcoholism is much like unexploded shells in the rubble we've left behind as a result of our firestorm of insanity.

Be Good To You, Dave