![]() ![]() Successful in our work, for example, but still feel that we have failed because a high goal we set eluded us. This can happen when we’ve set our goals unrealistically high. We also may have won some battles without knowing it. the same battle when we find ourselves in a similar situation. That person may be gone, but we still fight….and lose…. ![]() One losing battle is the attempt to win the approval of someone who has always disliked us. At times, we can find ourselves in the foolish game of continuing to fight battles we’ve won or lost. I simply ask this question: ‘In your own life, have you ever really tried to think and act as though there might be a God? Have you experimented?’”Įven the continuous sobriety we’re enjoying is no shield from traps we seem to set for ourselves. “Nevertheless, I would be the first to defend your right to think as you will. “I can only report that I have experimented with both concepts and that, in my case, the God concept has proved to be a better basis for living than the man-centered one. They prefer to believe that man is the chance product of evolution that God, the Creator, does not exist. “Since open-mindedness and experimentation are supposed to be the indispensable attributes of our ‘scientific’ civilization, it seems strange that so many scientists are reluctant to try out personally the hypothesis that God came first and man afterward. I pray that I may be a part of the forces for good in the world. I pray that I may keep progressing in the better life. Be part of the cure of the world’s ills, rather than part of the disease. The world is sure to get better, in spite of setbacks of war, hate, and greed. You can accomplish much good through the strength of God’s spirit in you. ![]() This law of spiritual progress gives meaning and purpose to your life. Today try to be stronger, braver, more loving as a result of what you did yesterday. Try to see around you more and more of beauty and truth, knowledge and power. Spiritual progress is the law of your being. Am I keeping sobriety in first place in my mind? Anything that makes us forget our number-one problem is dangerous to us. When we find ourselves getting upset over something, we must realize that it’s a luxury we alcoholics can’t afford. As we go along in A.A., we learn to recognize the things that may upset us emotionally. We must never let any other problem, whether of family, business, friends, or anything else, take precedence in our minds over our alcoholic problem. is “First Things First.” This means that we should always keep in mind that alcohol is our number-one problem. Courtesy and kindness, regularly practiced, help me to live in emotional balance, at peace with myself. The only amends I can make to those untraceable individuals, the only “changes for the better” I can offer, are indirect amends made to other people, whose paths briefly cross mine. These people are untraceable, and direct amends to them are not possible. When I survey my drinking days, I recall many people whom my life touched casually, but whose days I troubled through my anger and sarcasm. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible. ![]()
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