Thought for the Day -- 24 Hours a Day -- February 4 2007

reading for the Day from "Twenty-Four Hours a Day" published by Hazelden

Treating others to drinks gave us a kind of satisfaction. We liked to say, "have a drink on me". But we were not really doing other people a favor. We were only helping them to get drunk, esp. if they happened to be alcoholic. In AA, we really try to help other alcoholics. We build them up instead of tearing them down. Drinking created a sort of fellowship. But it was really a false fellowship, because it was based SELFISHNESS. We used our drinking companions for our own pleasure. In A.A., weh ave REAL FELLOWSHIP, based on UNSELFISHNESS and a desire to HELP each other. And we make real friends, not fair weather friends. With sobriety, have I got everything that drinking's got, without the headaches?

Meditation for the Day: I know that God cannot teach anyone who is trusting in a cruth. I wil throw away the crutch of alcohol and walkin God's power and spirit. God's power will so investigate me that I shall indeed walk on to victory. There is never any lmit to God's power. I will go step by stap, one day at a time. God's will shall be revealed to me as I go forward.

Prayer for the Day: I oray that I may have more and more dependence on God. I pray that I maythrow away my alcoholic crutch and let God's power take its place.

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I liked that I am off to church in a couple of hours will keep all in my prayers.