![]() The result? We love the way we feel now that we’re taking care of ourselves. We’re learning to love new ideas about life. Now that we’re in recovery, we’re learning to love people. The best way to know God is to love many things. My right to choose was restored by AA, and I must help protect it. At no time should we make any choices that rob us of our precious right to choose.Įvery action I take today must help me keep favorable options open in the future. We can protect our freedom of choice by deciding only to take actions that will strengthen such freedom in the future. A person who cheats, for example, may learn that he or she has no choice over the unpleasant outcomes that follow. other actions represent loss of choice in our lives. In the same way, other actions represent loss of choice in our lives. It’s always possible that the person who drinks again may never recovery sobriety. Recovering people in AA have learned that taking even one drink will result in the loss of choice, and it is not just a temporary loss of sobriety that one faces. Our own actions can take away from freedom of choice. We have to concede, however, that our choices are not always limited by the tyranny of others. Many alcoholics are vigorous defenders of free choice. Of course, we shall often miscalculate the future in whole or in part, but that is better than to refuse to think at all. ![]() God’s real providence has endowed us human beings with a considerable capability for foresight, and He evidently expects us to use it. Some might feel this sort of striving to be heresy against “One day at a time.” But that valuable principle really refers to our mental and emotional lives and means chiefly that we are not foolishly to repine over the past nor wishfully to daydream about the future.Īs individuals and as a fellowship, we shall surely suffer if we cast the whole job of planning for tomorrow onto a fatuous idea of providence. Vision is, I think the ability to make good estimates, both for the immediate and for the more distant future. I pray that I may have faith in His miracle-working power. I pray that I may be sure that there is nothing that God cannot accomplish in changing my life. ![]() ![]() So we can trust in God and have boundless faith in His power to make us whole again, whenever He chooses. When a person trusts wholly in God and leaves to Him the choosing of the day and hour, there is God’s miracle-working power becoming manifest in that person’s life. It still works miracles of change in lives and miracles of healing in twisted minds. God’s miracle-working power is as manifest today as it was in the past. I have learned to laugh at self-pity, because it’s so childish. When I am all wrapped up in A.A., I do not notice the personal slights so much. We have learned to take it on the chin if necessary and smile. One cause of our drinking was because we couldn’t take it, so we escaped the unpleasant situation. What happens to me now is not so important. It didn’t use to take much to insult me, to feel that I had been slighted or left on the outside. I am less sensitive and my feelings are less easily hurt. The more I choose to seek the beauty of God’s work in other people, the more certain of His presence I will become. Today I can bring myself a little closer to my Higher Power. Every encounter with another is an opportunity for prayer, for acknowledging God’s presence within me. Conscious contact with God can be as simple, and as profound, as conscious contact with another human being. Step Eleven doesn’t have to overwhelm me. And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and our intuitions of vitally needed support. When we refuse air, light or food, the body suffers. Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, sunshine.
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