Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Tenth Step Promises






AA Thought for Today



  • We continue to take personal inventory and continue to set right any new mistakes as we go along.
  • We vigorously commenced this way of living as we cleaned up the past.
  • We have entered the world of the Spirit.
  • Love and tolerance of others is our code.
  • We have ceased fighting anything or anyone even alcohol.
  • For by this time sanity will have returned.
  • We will seldom be interested in liquor. If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame.
  • We react sanely and normally, and we will find that this has happened automatically.
  • We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.
  • We are not fighting it, neither are we avoiding temptation.
  • We feel as though we had been placed in a position of neutrality-safe and protected.
  • We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us.
  • We are neither cocky nor are we afraid.
  • That is our experience. That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition.
  • We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe.
  • We are not cured of alcoholism.
  • What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.
  • Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God’s will into all of our activities.
  • “How can I best serve Thee-Thy will (not mine) be done.” These are thoughts which must go with us constantly.
  • We can exercise our will power along this line all we wish. It is the proper use of the will.
-- Alcoholics Anonymous, Into Action, Chapter 6, pages 84-85

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