billw@serene.UUCP (Bill Wilson) (01/17/90)
From the Day at a Time book --- January 17 -- Reflection for the Day I have been told over and over that I must constantly work to give up my old ideas. "That's easy for you to say," I've sometimes thought. All my life, I have been programmed, computer-style; specific inputs brought forth predictable responses. My mind still tends to react as a computer reacts, but I am learning to destroy the old tapes and literally reprogram myself. ** Am I fully willing to abandon my old ideas? Am I being fearless and thorough on a daily basis? ** --- Today I Pray Help me to take inventory each day of my stock of my new, healthy thoughts, throwing out the old ones as I happen upon them without regret or nostalgia. For I have outgrown those old ideas, which are as scuffed and run-over as an old pair of shoes. Now, in the light, I can see that they are filled with holes. --- Today I Will Remember The Program reprograms. --- God grant me the serenity | Serenity BBS (619) 259-7757 To accept the things I cannot change, | Keep Callin Back, It Works! The courage to change the things I can, | Mail --> billw, for access And the wisdom to know the difference. | to the recovery conference!
billw@serene.UUCP (Bill Wilson) (01/18/90)
From the Day at a Time book --- January 18 -- Reflection for the Day If we are determined to stop drinking or using other chemicals, there must be no reservations whatsoever, nor any lurking notion that our allergy of the body and obsession of the mind will some day reverse themselves. Our regeneration comes through the splendid paradox of the Twelve Steps: Strength arises from complete defeat, and the loss of one's old life is a condition for finding a new one. ** Am I convinced that in powerlessness, Power comes? Am I certain that by releasing my life and will, I am released? ** --- Today I Pray May I know power through powerlessness, victory through surrender, triumph through defeat. May I learn to relinquish any trace of secret pride that I can "do it by myself." Let my will be absorbed and steered by the omnipotent will of God. --- Today I Will Remember Let go and let God. --- God grant me the serenity | Serenity BBS (619) 259-7757 To accept the things I cannot change, | Keep Callin Back, It Works! The courage to change the things I can, | Mail --> billw, for access And the wisdom to know the difference. | to the recovery conference!
billw@serene.UUCP (Bill Wilson) (01/19/90)
From the Day at a Time book --- January 19 -- Reflection for the Day It was far easier for me to accept my powerlessness over my addiction than it was for me to accept the notion that some sort of Higher Power could accomplish that which I had been unable to accomplish myself. Simply by seeking help and accepting the fellowship of others similarly afflicted, the craving left me. And I realized that if I was doing what I was powerless alone to do, then surely I was doing so by some Power outside my own and obviously greater. ** Have I surrendered my life into the hands of God? ** --- Today I Pray May God erase in me the arrogant pride which keeps me from listening to Him. May my unhealthy dependence on chemicals and my clinging dependence on those nearby be transformed into reliance on God. Only in this kind of dependence/reliance on a Higher Power will I find my own transformation. --- Today I Will Remember I am God-dependent. --- God grant me the serenity | Serenity BBS (619) 259-7757 To accept the things I cannot change, | Keep Callin Back, It Works! The courage to change the things I can, | Mail --> billw, for access And the wisdom to know the difference. | to the recovery conference!