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From: billw@serene.UUCP (Bill Wilson)
Newsgroups: alt.recovery
Subject: Thought for the Day
Message-ID: <1339@serene.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 90 08:01:04 GMT
Reply-To: billw@serene.uu.net
Organization: Serenity BBS, Del Mar, California
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From the Day at a Time book
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January 19 -- Reflection for the Day

It was far easier for me to accept my powerlessness over my addiction
than it was for me to accept the notion that some sort of Higher
Power could accomplish that which I had been unable to accomplish
myself.  Simply by seeking help and accepting the fellowship of
others similarly afflicted, the craving left me.  And I realized that
if I was doing what I was powerless alone to do, then surely I was
doing so by some Power outside my own and obviously greater.  ** Have
I surrendered my life into the hands of God? **


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Today I Pray

May God erase in me the arrogant pride which keeps me from listening
to Him.  May my unhealthy dependence on chemicals and my clinging
dependence on those nearby be transformed into reliance on God.  Only
in this kind of dependence/reliance on a Higher Power will I find my
own transformation.


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Today I Will Remember

I am God-dependent.


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