Links |
Join |
Forums |
Find Help |
Recovery Readings |
Spiritual Meditations |
Chat |
Contact |
|
|
Daily Recovery Readings Start your day here with Daily Recovery Readings. Feel Free To Share Your Experience, Strength & Hope. |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
05-30-2014, 11:27 AM | #3 |
Administrator
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 70,608
|
June 3
Direct And Indirect Amends "We make our amends to the best of our ability." Basic Text, p. 40 The Ninth Step tells us to make direct amends wherever possible. Our experience tells us to follow up those direct amends with long - lasting changes in our attitudes and our behavior - that is, with indirect amends. For example, say we've broken someone's window because we were angry. Looking soulfully into the eyes of the person whose window we've broken and apologizing would not be sufficient. We directly amend the wrong we've done by admitting it and replacing the window - we mend what we have damaged. Then, we follow up our direct amends with indirect amends. If we've acted out on our anger, breaking someone's window, we examine the patterns of our behavior and our attitudes. After we repair the broken window, we seek to repair our broken attitudes as well - we try to "mend our ways." We modify our behavior, and make a daily effort not to act out on our anger. We make direct amends by repairing the damage we do. We make indirect amends by repairing the attitudes that cause us to do damage in the first place, helping insure we won't cause further damage in the future. Just for today: I will make direct amends, wherever possible. I will also make indirect amends, "mending my ways," changing my attitudes, and altering my behavior.
__________________
"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. |
Bookmarks |
Tags |
daily recovery readings, recovery |
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 2 (0 members and 2 guests) | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Daily Quote, Bible Verse and Prayer - June | bluidkiti | Daily Spiritual Meditations | 29 | 06-27-2014 12:46 PM |
NACR Daily Meditation - June | bluidkiti | Daily Spiritual Meditations | 29 | 06-27-2014 12:41 PM |
Daily Reprieve - June | bluidkiti | Daily Spiritual Meditations | 29 | 06-27-2014 11:06 AM |
Dr. Twerski's Sober Thought - June | bluidkiti | Daily Recovery Readings | 29 | 06-19-2014 11:24 AM |
Daily Recovery Readings - June | bluidkiti | Daily Recovery Readings Archive | 29 | 09-14-2013 11:38 AM |