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- Apr 29, 2024
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This is my Tradition 5/7, step 12
months word: step 4_Courage
Pancake Marathon:
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acronyms and SLOGANS: Organized by Pancake Marathon
First Things First is to always be willing to Cultivate an attitude of gratitude for that is the key to Not just being a visitor to AA, as to simply say: find a way to q-tip so we can hold fear in a different way; for that is what recovery really is about; finding a new way to live and leaving it better then we found it so that we can keep on showing up to see how god is helping is to love today and to gift the gift of a hug….to just simple keep pushing.
Acronyms
Q-TIP: Quit Taking It Personally
FEAR: Face Everything And Rise
GOD: Good Orderly Direction
GIFT: God Is Forever There
LOVE: Let Others Voluntarily Evolve
HUG: Hope Using God
PUSH: Pray Until Something Happens
Slogans
First Things First
Cultivate an attitude of gratitude
Don't just be a visitor in AA,
Principles
Tradition 7: leaving it better then we found it
Promise 3: finding a new way to live
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
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Slogans (underlined) blog page Acronyms (bold) blog page Principles (italic): A.A. files
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
Keep It Simple: Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues. --- Hugh Prather
Before recovery, we saw only a blurry picture of ourselves, like we were looking through an out-of-focus camera lens. We couldn't see the good in ourselves because we wouldn't look close enough.
Step Four helps us look more closely. We see a picture of ourselves, with our good points and our faults. We don't like everything we see. But we can't change until we accept ourselves as we are.
Then we can start getting ready to change.
Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me see the good in me and love myself.
Action for the Day: Today, I'll make a list of four of my good points and four of my faults. Am I getting to have my Higher Power remove these defects of character?
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NA Just For Today: Who Really Gets Better?
"We can also use the steps to improve our attitudes. Our best thinking got us into trouble. We recognize the need for change." Basic Text, p. 53
When new in recovery, most of us had at least one person we just couldn't stand. We thought that person was the rudest, most obnoxious person in the program. We knew there was something we could do, some principle of recovery we could practice to get over the way we felt about this person-but what? We asked
our sponsor for guidance. We were probably assured, with an amused smile, that if we just kept coming back, we'd see the person get better. That made sense to us. We believed that the steps of NA worked in the lives of everyone. If they could work for us, they could work for this horrible person, too.
Time passed, and at some point we noticed that the person didn't seem as rude or obnoxious as before. In fact, he or she had become downright tolerable, maybe even likeable. We got a pleasant jolt as we realized who had really gotten better. Because we had kept coming back, because we had kept working the steps, our perception of this person had changed. The person who'd plagued us had become "tolerable" because we'd developed some tolerance; he or she had become "likeable" because we'd developed the ability to love.
So who really gets better? We do! As we practice the program, we gain a whole new outlook on those around us by gaining a new outlook on ourselves.
Just for today: As I get better, so will others. Today, I will practice tolerance and try to love those I meet.
Is what Spiritual Awakening I get from this reading
Acceptance_STEP 6
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Daily Reflections: TWO "MAGNIFICENT STANDARDS"
All A.A. progress can be reckoned in terms of just two words: humility and responsibility. Our whole spiritual development can be accurately measured by our degree of adherence to these magnificent standards. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 271
To acknowledge and respect the views, accomplishments and prerogatives of others and to accept being wrong shows me the way of humility. To practice the principles of A.A. in all my affairs guides me to be responsible. Honoring these precepts gives credence to Tradition Four--and to all other
Traditions of the Fellowship. Alcoholics Anonymous has evolved a philosophy of life full of valid motivations, rich in highly relevant principles and ethical values, a view of life which can be extended beyond the confines of the alcoholic population.
To honor these precepts I need only to pray, and care for my fellow man as if each one were my brother.
Is what Spiritual Awakening I get from this reading
Forgiveness_STEP 9
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