Wisdom For Today - May

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May 6

Wisdom for Today
Alcoholics Anonymous is not a new program with new ideas. The founders of the program tell us that all the ideas of the program are borrowed. These ideas were borrowed from medicine, psychiatry and religion. The people that started the Program took the ideas that seemed best. This is the same advice that you hear in meetings today. “Take what works and leave the rest. ”It is this very principal that makes the program so adaptable for so many people. In the program we are able to find the things that work for us.
The results speak for themselves. Using the 12 steps has helped thousands and thousands of alcoholics. In the program we find the things that help us to become better people. We do not go to the program to try and make it better. Instead we use the things that we find there that will work for us. This program has everything that we need. In it we find the tools that we’re looking for to help us stay clean and sober. What works for each of us is different. For some of us it is finding out that we suffer from the disease. For others of us it is finding out how our thinking and emotions are all mixed up. For others it is the spiritual aspects of the program that are most important. For some of us we need all of these aspects. Regardless of what we need, we can find it in the program. It is this very taking of what works and leaving the rest that makes this program so powerful for each of us. Do I try and follow the program just as it is?
Meditations for the Heart
It is important for each of us to find meaning and purpose in our life. In the program we are taught to strive for union between our purpose and the purpose of a Higher Power. In finding union between our purpose and purpose of our higher power, we find the direction that we all seek. We can find no bond here on this earth as strong as the bond that exists between a human soul and that of God. It is this union that makes recovery possible. When we take our will and our thinking and align it with that of God, we find the happiness that we seek. When our purpose is one with God, we’re able to accomplish the task of staying clean and sober. But more than this, we find that we’re able to live life fully. We find that we’re able to experience the promises of the program. We find freedom from addiction, not a cure, but freedom. Is my purpose one with God?
Petitions to my Higher Power
God,
As I sit in meetings and talk with other recovering people, I am given pearls of wisdom, clear direction, and hope. I am able to find purpose in my life. I am also able to find Your purpose for my life. Help me this day to align my purpose with Yours. Give me strength to accomplish Your purpose in my life. Help me to continue to find the things that I need in the program. Help me to find a new way of living.
Amen