The Fourth Step gives us an opportunity to examine who we really are, and the Fifth Step helps us accept that knowledge. True humility is, simply, acceptance of who we are.īy the time we reach a step that uses the word "humbly " we have already started to put this principle into practice. It sounds suspiciously like groveling, bowing, and scraping. We know a lot about humiliation, but humility is a new idea. "To be truly humble is to accept and honestly try to be ourselves." I pray that I may not forget where I might be but for the grace of God. I pray that I may be very grateful today. "But for the grace of God," we would not have them.
May 28 aa daily reflection free#
fellowship: all these things are free gifts of God to us. When we look around at all the things we have today, how can we help being grateful to God? Our families, our homes, our friends, our A.A.
The pilgrims gathered to give thanks to God for their harvest which was pitifully small. Gratitude to God is the theme of Thanksgiving Day. Some are unable to achieve sobriety and some slip back into alcoholism after they have had some measure of sobriety. is the most successful and happiest way to sobriety. Some men and women have gotten sober all by themselves. Doctors, psychiatrists, and the clergy have had some success. is known everywhere as a method that has been successful with alcoholics. © Copyright 1990 by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
way of life through attraction, not promotion. Through humility and the support of my fellow sober members, I have been able to practice the A.A. I thank God for having given me the attraction of a well-planned and established program of Steps and Traditions. It is by attraction that I can best reach the alcoholic who still suffers. I became the custodian of this concept of attraction, which is the principle of our Fellowship's public relations. All I wanted then was to be accepted by another human simply as I was and, curiously, that is what I found in A.A. While I was drinking I reacted with anger, self-pity and defiance against anyone who wanted to change me. We found that we had to rely upon the principle of attraction rather than of promotion.
It is the opposite in many ways of usual promotional practice. Through many painful experiences, we think we have arrived at what that policy ought to be. Together WE Trudge The Road OF Happy Destiny
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