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- May 7, 2024
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This is my Tradition 5/7, step 12
Pancake Marathon
My willingness to practice principles before personalities, is easier when I have a peace of mind, as necessary when I essentially give my peace of mind away: at that point so easy is it to steal someone else's; I know I have no right to control the situation other than through how I act, simply to say how I will cultivate an attitude of gratitude and being able to be humble because I have the willingness to practice the principles and all my affairs.
acronyms and SLOGANS: Organized by Pancake Marathon
Keep it simple so that you can Keep An Open Mind because you Just show up and then see what happens, as you let Misery is optional be the part of your why at that moment; as Recovery is a journey ...not a destination when we see that we fail we get back up by the love that we think that we help us to stop going nuts: A power greater than ourselves Through our understanding be able to know a New Freedom, as simply we keep on finding away to push.
Acronyms
FAIL: First attempt in learning
LOVE: Let Others Voluntarily Evolve
THINK: is it...? Thoughtful Honest Intelligent Necessary Kind
NUTS: Not Using The Steps
PUSH: Pray Until Something Happens
Slogans
Keep it simple
Keep An Open Mind
Just show up and then see what happens
Misery is optional
Recovery is a journey ...not a destination
Principles
A power greater than ourselves Through our understanding be able to know a New Freedom
Slogans are wisdom written in shorthand and Acronyms are just the sum/the Virtues, of all that wisdom: WISDOM: When In Self, Discover Our Motives
Slogans (underlined) blog page Acronyms (bold) blog page Principles (italic): A.A. files
Meeting topic
Practicing the principles in all your
holding true by Being Earnest
word of the month
Honesty/Integrity/Concern/readiness
step 5: Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Spiritual principle a day:
Powerlessness and the Second Step |
Page 132 |
"By admitting our own powerlessness, we open our minds to an entirely new idea: the possibility that something greater than ourselves might be powerful enough to relieve our obsession to use drugs." |
It Works, Step Two |
Our literature describes how the Second Step helps us to fill the gap created when we admit our powerlessness in Step One. If we are powerless over our disease, what can we do about it? For many of us, simply seeing there are other addicts like us who have lost the desire to use is enough to open our minds to the possibility that something might be able to help us, too--even if we don't know what that something might be. The catch to accepting help from a power greater than ourselves is that we have to stop exerting our own power first. Practicing powerlessness over our disease means that we stop trying to manage and control it. So many of us have shared about trying to limit our using, hiding our stash from ourselves, using only certain substances or on certain days of the week, and many other ways of trying to be clever or tricky enough to outsmart our addiction. If anyone had success with those types of tricks, they're probably not NA members. (Yet?) That's the way it is with addiction. If we try to overpower or outmaneuver our disease, we're bound to fail. It might not even happen right away, but eventually we find ourselves surrounded by unmanageability, wondering what happened to our well-laid plans. Rather than exerting great control over ourselves to behave in a highly predictable and consistent manner, we let go of the illusion of control and open ourselves to a power from elsewhere. Unlimited examples of experience, strength, and hope are available to us when we share with other addicts in recovery. |
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Rather than trying to go it alone, I will rely on a power greater than myself. |
Keep It Simple: So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.---Will Rogers
Secrets help keep us sick. In our drinking and using days, we did things we weren't proud of. We lived in a secret world we were ashamed of. This part of the power of addiction. Our behavior and our secrets kept us trapped. Recovery offers us a way out of this secret world. In our groups, we share our secrets, and they lose their power over us. There may be things we're too ashamed to talk about in our groups. When we share these things in our Fifth Step, they lose their power over us.
We have a new life that we're not ashamed to talk about. When shame leaves, pride enters our hearts. We know we're good people!
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me live a good life.
Action for the Day: Do I have any secrets that get in my way? Do I need to do a Fifth Step? If so, I'll pick a date---today.
NA Just For Today: Turning Turmoil Into Peace
"With the world in such a turmoil, I feel I have been blessed to be where I am." Basic Text, p. 155
Some days it doesn't pay to turn on the news, we hear so many stories about violence and mayhem. When we used, many of us grew accustomed to violence. Through the fog of our addiction, we rarely got too disturbed by the state of the world. When we are clean, however, many of us find we are particularly sensitive to the world around us. As recovering people, what can we do to make it a better place?
When we find ourselves disturbed by the turmoil of our world, we can find comfort in prayer and meditation. When it seems like everything is turned upside down, our contact with our Higher Power can be our calm in the midst of any storm. When we are centered on our spiritual path, we can respond to our fears with peace. And by living peaceably ourselves, we invite a spirit of peace to enter our world. As recovering people, we can affect positive change by doing our best to practice the principles of our program.
Just for today: I will enhance peace in the world by living, speaking, and acting peacefully in my own life.
Daily Reflections: RESPECT FOR OTHERS
Such parts of our story we tell to someone who will understand, yet be unaffected. The rule is we must be hard on our self, but always considerate of others. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 74
Respect for others is the lesson that I take out of this passage. I must go to any lengths to free myself if I wish to find that peace of mind that I have sought for so long. However, none of this must be done at another's expense. Selfishness has no place in the A.A. way of life.
When I take the Fifth Step it's wiser to choose a person with whom I share common aims because if that person does not understand me, my spiritual progress may be delayed and I could be in danger of a relapse.
So I ask for divine guidance before choosing the man or woman whom I take into my confidence.
What is this
Step 12/to give where credit is due I got all of these readings from "recovery HQ" _ but I put them in a Living life on life's terms and to Better care of the message and you can actually find all of them in Daily Readings and Inspirations
simple literature Organized by Pancake Marathon: Daily Readings and Inspirations
Read It to me of the literature of recovery
Where I talk about my recovery journey
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