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The meeting after the meeting
Daily practice
The morning and evening review the program has used for ninety years, the prayers, and a few recordings worth your time. This page is not in the menu; it is passed along, one friend to another.
On Awakening
Alcoholics Anonymous, page 86
On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.
Under these conditions we can employ our mental faculties with assurance, for after all God gave us brains to use. Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives.
In thinking about our day we may face indecision. We may not be able to determine which course to take. Here we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. We relax and take it easy. We don't struggle. We are often surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a while.
What used to be the hunch or the occasional inspiration gradually becomes a working part of the mind. Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times. We might pay for this presumption in all sorts of absurd actions and ideas. Nevertheless, we find that our thinking will, as time passes, be more and more on the plane of inspiration. We come to rely upon it.
Morning reflection
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Still Here is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services or any twelve step fellowship. The passages above come from the first edition of Alcoholics Anonymous, shared with gratitude for those who wrote them and those who live them.