AA Thought for the Day Intelligent faith in a Power greater

AA Thought for the Day
Intelligent faith in a Power greater than ourselves can be counted on to stabilize our emotions. It has an incomparable capacity to help us look at life in balanced perspective. We look up, around, and away from ourselves, and we see that nine out of ten things that at the moment upset us will shortly disappear. Problems solve themselves; criticism and unkindness vanish as though they had never been. Have I got the proper perspective toward life?

Meditation for the Day
A truly spiritual man or woman would like to have a serene mind. The only way to keep calm in this troubled world is to have a serene mind. The calm and sane mind sees spiritual things as the true realities and material things as only temporary and fleeting. That sort of mind you can never obtain by reasoning, because your reasoning powers are limited by space and time. That kind of a mind you can never obtain by reading, because other minds are also limited in the same way. You can only have that mind by an act of faith, by making the venture of belief.

Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may have a calm and sane mind. I pray that I may look up, around, and away from myself.

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Hello I love your perspective on life. I try every day to live a balanced life. My life has become so much more pleasant since I've turned my will over to my higher power. I know things will always work out. Even if it's not the way I expect, everything is always ok.

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Amen to that๐Ÿ™

If anyone has trouble with "faith", do not worry. It isn't necessary. You can have a "higher power" aka OTHER Power in the fellowship, the buddy system. You don't need faith which by definition is belive in something that's unable to be proven. Trust however is something that you can learn with meetings and fellowship. Build that trust between you and your homies and you have a recipe for success.

Again, no disrespect to the faith based peeps, I'm simply putting this out here for the faithless.