February 22 | AA 12 Steps In Action | Step 2 | 2012 | Today's AA daily reflection: "all about guidance." I have a strong faith in being guided by any source of wisdom which comes into my life today. Is this a faith in a higher power? Most often to me it is listening to the collective wisdom of the many people I encounter in life on a daily basis. Wherever faith comes from, which helps develop solutions, and improve my experience, strength and hope is truly a gift and a source for me to acknowledge…
Our Fellowship, "forged on the anvils of experience," continues to be forged on the many anvils of the many in recovery. With humility and as individuals we can grow and develop our experience, strength and hope and collectively as humanity nothing stands still. Humanity is evolving as we are evolving as individuals, recovery and sobriety offers me the freedom to learn and the freedom to choose next steps and next actions in my life today…
Opinions and beliefs, we all have them and there are over seven billion people on the planet. Each of us with an outlook, growing and developing through time and experience. We all have our unique and authentic experience day by day, I found it best never to undermine others opinions and beliefs and hope that as I am respectful to the world, I hope the world and people I encounter may be respectful of my outlook to good conscience and good living today…
Over the decades I'm grateful that the founders of the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous made it clear that there is no exclusion to anyone wishing to be a part of the Fellowship and the only requirement is a desire to stop drinking. No rules, no laws and regulations to exclude individuals. We are all trusted servants, each with our opinions and beliefs, and at the same time being respectful of each other's outlook even when it may feel disagreeable and wrong for us as individuals…
You are quite within your rights to follow your path, your religion and politics in the world which does not interfere with the rights of others, in line with the declaration of human rights by the United Nations. In Fellowship we are mindful not to tread on each other's toes and as the AA pledge reads, "I'm responsible when anyone anywhere reaches out the help, I want the hand of AA to be there and for that I'm responsible…" It may not be your hand or my hand today, the hope is there will be a hand in AA reaching out to offer help and when asked we will try to answer…
We all have an inner voice, and that inner voice is motivated by our personal traits and drives. From whatever source, be it a higher power, nature and providence I feel there is a moral code and I have a conscience to the good of life. Faith and belief in seeking solutions to the good of life and the good of everyone keeps me right sized in my outlook and my actions on a daily basis. Everyone contributes to life based on their beliefs and opinions on what they choose to do. Freedom of choice with a clear head and seeing the big picture and the possibilities to the good help guide me in my actions day by day…
DonInLondon 2005-2011
We are always unique and authentic individuals, living in the same day. Truth, love and wisdom are key to living. With humility we learn what works each day, that we are all interdependent and connected. Sober we have freedom to choose our path, we can change as life changes today...
Sober emotionally and spiritually our inner voice rings true to the good of living ~ Shakti Gawain "Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness." -/- Our inner voice informed by truth, love and listening to wisdom of others..
Our wisdom develops with an honest open and willing outlook, accepting and guided by the truth in front of us ~ Immanuel Kant "Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another?" -/- Emotional and spiritual living is now, inclusive and enriched by experience and all we encounter..
Let go.. out of the madness of self will run riot, and let in the Truth, love and wisdom of others ~ Shakti Gawain "When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously." Solutions come more easily as we include and seek help without fear..
Buddha "Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue."
Sober and with humility, if we behave to others as we would like them to behave towards us ~ Anais Nin ~ "Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it." -/- and have no expectations of them, then resentments and forgiveness keep us on the potholed intrepid path of destiny, it’s not what they do, it’s what we do that gets results…
Living in the solution, honest open and willing, newcomers.. ~ Anais Nin "Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." -/- We need love them as we cherish our closest friends and as we learn to love ourselves..
AA Daily Reflection: GUIDANCE ~ FEBRUARY 22, This means a belief in a Creator who is all power, justice, and love; a God who intends for me a purpose, a meaning, and a destiny to grow, however… haltingly, toward His own likeness and image. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 51
As I began to understand my own powerlessness and my dependence on God, as I understand Him, I began to see that there was a life which, if I could have it, I would have chosen for myself from the beginning. It is through the continuous work of the Steps and the life in the Fellowship that I’ve learned to see that there is truly a better way into which I am being guided. As I come to know more about God, I am able to trust His ways and His plans for the development of His character in me. Quickly or not so quickly, I grow toward His image and likeness...
Step 2 Reading Video Link:
"Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity"
Our Fellowship, "forged on the anvils of experience," continues to be forged on the many anvils of the many in recovery. With humility and as individuals we can grow and develop our experience, strength and hope and collectively as humanity nothing stands still. Humanity is evolving as we are evolving as individuals, recovery and sobriety offers me the freedom to learn and the freedom to choose next steps and next actions in my life today…
Opinions and beliefs, we all have them and there are over seven billion people on the planet. Each of us with an outlook, growing and developing through time and experience. We all have our unique and authentic experience day by day, I found it best never to undermine others opinions and beliefs and hope that as I am respectful to the world, I hope the world and people I encounter may be respectful of my outlook to good conscience and good living today…
Over the decades I'm grateful that the founders of the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous made it clear that there is no exclusion to anyone wishing to be a part of the Fellowship and the only requirement is a desire to stop drinking. No rules, no laws and regulations to exclude individuals. We are all trusted servants, each with our opinions and beliefs, and at the same time being respectful of each other's outlook even when it may feel disagreeable and wrong for us as individuals…
You are quite within your rights to follow your path, your religion and politics in the world which does not interfere with the rights of others, in line with the declaration of human rights by the United Nations. In Fellowship we are mindful not to tread on each other's toes and as the AA pledge reads, "I'm responsible when anyone anywhere reaches out the help, I want the hand of AA to be there and for that I'm responsible…" It may not be your hand or my hand today, the hope is there will be a hand in AA reaching out to offer help and when asked we will try to answer…
We all have an inner voice, and that inner voice is motivated by our personal traits and drives. From whatever source, be it a higher power, nature and providence I feel there is a moral code and I have a conscience to the good of life. Faith and belief in seeking solutions to the good of life and the good of everyone keeps me right sized in my outlook and my actions on a daily basis. Everyone contributes to life based on their beliefs and opinions on what they choose to do. Freedom of choice with a clear head and seeing the big picture and the possibilities to the good help guide me in my actions day by day…
DonInLondon 2005-2011
We are always unique and authentic individuals, living in the same day. Truth, love and wisdom are key to living. With humility we learn what works each day, that we are all interdependent and connected. Sober we have freedom to choose our path, we can change as life changes today...
Sober emotionally and spiritually our inner voice rings true to the good of living ~ Shakti Gawain "Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness." -/- Our inner voice informed by truth, love and listening to wisdom of others..
Our wisdom develops with an honest open and willing outlook, accepting and guided by the truth in front of us ~ Immanuel Kant "Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another?" -/- Emotional and spiritual living is now, inclusive and enriched by experience and all we encounter..
Let go.. out of the madness of self will run riot, and let in the Truth, love and wisdom of others ~ Shakti Gawain "When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously." Solutions come more easily as we include and seek help without fear..
Buddha "Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue."
Sober and with humility, if we behave to others as we would like them to behave towards us ~ Anais Nin ~ "Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it." -/- and have no expectations of them, then resentments and forgiveness keep us on the potholed intrepid path of destiny, it’s not what they do, it’s what we do that gets results…
Living in the solution, honest open and willing, newcomers.. ~ Anais Nin "Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." -/- We need love them as we cherish our closest friends and as we learn to love ourselves..
AA Daily Reflection: GUIDANCE ~ FEBRUARY 22, This means a belief in a Creator who is all power, justice, and love; a God who intends for me a purpose, a meaning, and a destiny to grow, however… haltingly, toward His own likeness and image. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 51
As I began to understand my own powerlessness and my dependence on God, as I understand Him, I began to see that there was a life which, if I could have it, I would have chosen for myself from the beginning. It is through the continuous work of the Steps and the life in the Fellowship that I’ve learned to see that there is truly a better way into which I am being guided. As I come to know more about God, I am able to trust His ways and His plans for the development of His character in me. Quickly or not so quickly, I grow toward His image and likeness...
Step 2 Reading Video Link:
"Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity"
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