AA Thought for the Day - February 15, 2015

AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AA-Alive.net)

February 15, 2015

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Seeing Is Believing
The Wright brothers' almost childish faith that they could build a machine which would fly
was the mainspring of their accomplishment.  Without that, nothing could have happened. . .
When others showed us that God-sufficiency worked with them,
we began to feel like those who had insisted the Wrights would never fly.
We were seeing another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation from this world, people who rose above their problems.
- As Bill Sees it, p. 47

Thought to Ponder . . .
I saw, I felt, I believed.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A B C = Acceptance, Belief, Change.

A Member Shares:
Hi all, Claudia here, an alcoholic.  When I first read Bill’s thoughts I had the vision of a mind with a steel door.  That steel door kept whatever information was in that mind set and immovable.  New ideas were unwanted; even forbidden.  And the person with that steel door mind was an opinionated know-it-all.  Then I realized that person was me through and through before my recovery.  I was closed-minded and knew the right, and the only way, to do everything.  You never had to ask me what I thought because I was always at the ready to tell you before you even had time to wonder what I thought.  And tell you I would, even though my opinion was unwanted, uninvited and unwelcome.  Before AA, it was my way or the highway.  In our microwave culture, the statement “time takes time” is hard to hear, hard on the ego, and certainly hard to practice.  We have very little patience for activities or enterprises that compel us to wait.  But more often than not, real recovery is slow... it takes time.  The deeper the wound, the more extensive the damage or trauma, the greater amount of time may be required for us to recover.  If we follow the suggestions, find a sponsor, listen, work the Steps, if we are faithful, practice self-honesty and become a participant rather than a mere observer and don’t give up, sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly, we will begin to know peace and understand the word serenity.  Indeed, seeing is believing, even though some of the things we hear may not make sense at first.  One day at a time, in faith and trust, seeing goes to believing, then to personal reality.  Thank you.
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