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bluidkiti · 03-26-2024, 05:23 AM

March 26

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone; but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything.

~St. Ignatius Loyola

It's a spiritual paradox that the more successful we feel in this program, the more convinced we are that it is not our doing. Our success depends on our Higher Power. None of us can say, "I did it." As the quality of our life improves, though - as we grow calmer and more self assured - it is only natural for us to feel we’ve done something right.

We most assuredly have done something right if we are working the Twelve Steps of this program, for it is a stairway to communion with God, a stairway to serenity. The more time we spend on the Steps, the more time we spend with God. It's that simple. So it is true that we work for our own success, and it is just as true that it comes from God.

My success depends on the effort I make in putting myself in the hands of God.

Today's reading is from the book In God's Care: Daily Meditations on Spirituality in Recovery*

03-26-2024, 05:23 AM	#26
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 71,080	March 26 Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone; but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything. ~St. Ignatius Loyola It's a spiritual paradox that the more successful we feel in this program, the more convinced we are that it is not our doing. Our success depends on our Higher Power. None of us can say, "I did it." As the quality of our life improves, though - as we grow calmer and more self assured - it is only natural for us to feel we’ve done something right. We most assuredly have done something right if we are working the Twelve Steps of this program, for it is a stairway to communion with God, a stairway to serenity. The more time we spend on the Steps, the more time we spend with God. It's that simple. So it is true that we work for our own success, and it is just as true that it comes from God. My success depends on the effort I make in putting myself in the hands of God. Today's reading is from the book In God's Care: Daily Meditations on Spirituality in Recovery* __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.