AA Thought for the Day - February 24, 2016

AA Thought for the Day
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February 24, 2016

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Step Eight
"Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings."

What real harm had we done?  No more, surely, than we could easily mend with a few casual apologies.
This attitude, of course, is the result of purposeful forgetting.
It is an attitude which can be changed by a deep and honest search of our motives and actions. . .
. . .we should nevertheless make an accurate and exhaustive survey of our life as it has affected other people.
In many instances we shall find that though the harm done others has not been great,
the emotional harm we have done ourselves has.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 79

Thought to Ponder . . .
Forgiveness is the final form of love.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A A = Altered Attitudes.

A Member Shares:
My name is Hope, an alkie.  I was given a very practical approach to Step Eight.  The folks I did not list on my Step 8 list were sick people, whose woes I had increased.  I had a 'never' in there, too.  I flinched each time I heard St Francis prayer: "…forgiven as we forgive."  Then, I heard a speaker, Bobby E, and he said there are some things only God can forgive.  I followed the directions on that, and I prayed for God to bless them with all the things I wished for myself.  And it worked; it took the heat out.  I was open in my heart and could grow spiritually to forgive and be forgiven.  They benefitted, and I did too.  Bless us all.
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Blessings in sobriety to all,
In love and service,
joanna b
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