Thought for the Day By drinking, we escaped from boredom for

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Thought for the Day

By drinking, we escaped from boredom for a while. We almost forgot our troubles. But when we sobered up, our troubles were twice as bad. Drinking had only made them worse. In A.A., we really escape boredom. Nobody's bored at an A.A. meeting. We stick around after it's over and we hate to leave. Drinking gave us a temporary feeling of importance. When we're drinking, we kid ourselves into thinking we are somebody. We tell tall stories to build ourselves up. In A.A., we don't want that kind of self-importance. We have real self-respect and honesty and humility. Have I found something much better and more satisfactory than drinking?

Meditation for the Day
I believe that my faith and God's power can accomplish anything in human relationships. There is no limit to what these two things can do in this field. Only believe, and anything can happen. Saint Paul said, "I can do all things through Him who strengthened me." All walls that divide you from other human beings can fall by your faith and God's power. These are the two essentials. Everyone can be moved by these.

Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may try to strengthen my faith day by day. I pray that I may rely more and more on God's power.
What you do today can improve all of your tomorrows. - Sober Time's message for February 3, 2023.

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The first part of this post (as often with your posts) is great I 100% agree. After that it devolves into proselytizing, as usual.

The meditation for the day is bs. "Faith" and "gods power" are absolutely NOT essential to sobriety. And not everyone can be "moved" by these ideas, since there are alot of people within AA that are atheist/agnostic/other non-christian god following denominations and simply don't follow or believe these archaic notions.

If you truly want to help people, all people stay sober, please try not to be exclusionary. Sobriety can be had through fellowship and reason, for everyone. One doesn't need to convert to achieve this.

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#3

I read this this morning!!! Great one

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#4

I hear you but I also think that new comers you need to latch on and full heartedly believe that we can not drink or use which is the vital message of this meditation. Please show me where you get yours and I'll be blessed to share that to. The one thing that is constant about this recovery is you make it your own way. I have a higher power but I do not subscribe to traditional religions.

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#5

That is def not the point of that meditation. The point of that meditation is basically that you can't do it (get/stay sober) without a belief in god. It didn't even say "higher power", it's very specific. That's just not reasonable or correct. Is that from a Hazelden book?

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I did find something though from Beyond Belief: Agnostic Musings for 12 Step Life - Brooklyn Intergroup https://brooklynintergroup.org/brooklyn/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Beyond-Belief.pdf

#7

Of course I got it from Hazelton

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#8

Hazelden and AA aren't synonymous. I wouldn't mix and match the two even though Hazelden does.

#9

I have this book. And I have a legit Agnostic AA group.

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#10

You know what the no 1 tradition is don't be unpleasant If you have it then you are free to post it yourself and offer an alternative view. The more the merrier.

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#11

You go girl express yourself :purple_heart:

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#12

Aww thank you!! Your children are so beautiful :hugs::hugs::hugs::hugs:

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They are my Grandbabies Thank you Iā€™m truly Blessed

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