When we discover new ideas, they’ll reinforce and expand what we’ve already learned. We can “Keep it Simple” by building or lives around the principles of the Twelve Step program. The deepest book, for example, is still composed of only twenty-six letters. Even the most difficult subject can usually be mattered by processes of simplification. The real aim of “keeping it simple” should be to stay mindful of the principles and essentials that are key to everybody else. It would be a mistake to believe that one must renounce a brainpower and education in order to stay sober. One of the blessings of sobriety, in fact, should be the ability to think clearly and effectively. Bob … A highly intelligent man… was not saying that we shouldn’t use our heads for real thinking and study. What did he really have in mind with this final piece of advice? His phrase “Keep it Simple,” however, is now a guiding slogan in the program. Bob Smith left little in the way of written material for AA’s future. Indeed, no alcoholic can be deprived of his membership for any reason whatever. This is why we prescribe no punishments for any misbehavior, no matter how grievous. Given still more ‘righteous’ indignation, the group can disintegrate it can actually die. Given enough anger, both unity and purpose are lost. “Much the same penalty overhangs every A.A. know that for us ‘To drink is eventually to go mad or die.’ “As the book ‘Alcoholics Anonymous’ puts it, ‘Resentment is the Number One offender.’ It is a primary cause of relapses into drinking. I pray that I may not be turned aside by the skepticism and cynicism of unbelievers. I pray that I may be ready to profess my belief in God before others. These are honesty, purity, unselfishness, love, gratitude, and humility. Be known by the marks that distinguish a believer in God. You must be ready to stand aside and let the fashions and customs of the world go by, when God’s purposes are thereby forwarded. You must even be willing to be deemed a fool for the sake of your faith. Believers in God are considered by some as peculiar people. They recover their faith in a Higher Power that can help them. They put their drink problem in God’s hands and leave it there. They surrender their lives to God, as they understand Him.
They admit that they’re helpless by themselves and they call on that Higher Power for help. Second, alcoholics recover their faith in a Power greater than themselves. I ask God daily to show me such a freedom!
Unless I can or until I do, I will always be running, and never be truly free. I must call upon God’s power to face the person I’ve feared the most, the true me, the person God created me to be.
Aa daily reflections april 2nd free#
I must look inside myself, to free myself. Yet without dreams I cannot exist without dreams there is nothing to keep me moving forward. Today I am no longer a slave to alcohol, yet in so many ways enslavement still threatens–my self, my desires, even my dreams. –TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p.43
By discovering what our emotional deformities are, we can move toward their correction We wish to look squarely at the unhappiness this has caused others and ourselves. We want to find exactly how, when, and where our natural desires have warped us.
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