![]() Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me make a complete list. As our recovery goes on we’ll remember others we have hurt. Our list must be as complete as we can make it. Now we’re healing, and we must help others to heal too. We start by making a list of all persons we’ve harmed. Made a list of all persons we had harmed …īy the time we get to Step Eight, we’re ready to work on our relationships. If I know I’m insincere in certain areas, I’ll seek more understanding about it. I’ll seek to be sincere today about the things that really count. To accept this is a sign of prudence and maturity, and perhaps even a measure of humility. Perhaps we are capable of being sincere today, and then lapse into insincerity tomorrow. It may even be that sincerity, like sobriety, has to be sought on a daily basis. If hidden desires to drink still persist even after years of sobriety, it points to the persistence of the disease…. It’s wise to assume that this is so even when there’s no conscious desire to drink. Even if we’ve been sober for years, the old desire to drink can be lurking somewhere in the back of our minds. Even in trying to understand ourselves, we may detect traces of double-mindedness that got us into trouble. We have no way of gauging just how sincere anybody really is. We sometimes dismiss others people’s relapses with the explanation that they didn’t really want to stay sober or that they lacked sincerity of purpose. But they had not learned enough of humility, fearlessness, and honesty, in the sense we find it necessary, until they told someone else their entire life story. They only thought they had lost their egoism and fear they only thought they had humbled themselves. They took inventory all right, but hung on to some of the worst items in stock. We think the reason is that they never completed their housecleaning. Having persevered with the rest of the program, they wondered why they fell. Trying to avoid the humbling experience of the Fifth Step, they have turned to easier methods. Time after time, newcomers have tried to keep to themselves shoddy facts about their lives. I pray that I may be in harmony with the music of the spheres. I pray that I may become attuned to the will of God. ![]() That oneness of purpose puts you in harmony with God and with all others who are trying to do His will. In merging your heart and mind with the heart and mind of the Higher Power, a oneness of purpose results, which only those who experience it can even dimly realize. Priceless beyond all earth’s rewards is that union. There is no bond of union on earth to compare with the union between a human soul and God. ![]() You should strive for a union between your purposes in life and the purposes of the Divine Principle directing the universe. It has everything we alcoholics need to arrest our illness. Its value has been proved by the success it has had in helping thousands of alcoholics to recover. It has taken from these what it wanted and combined them into the program which it considers best suited to the alcoholic mind and which will best help the alcoholic to recover. The Alcoholics Anonymous program has borrowed from medicine, psychiatry, and religion. By living a spiritual life, by asking God for help, I have learned to love, care for and feel compassion for all my fellow men, and to feel joy in a world where, before, I felt only fear. God, as I understand Him, has given me answers to the whys that kept me drinking for twenty years. Spirituality was what I had been seeking. When new in the program, I couldn’t comprehend living the spiritual aspect of the program, but now that I’m sober, I can’t comprehend living without it.
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