10/28/2023 0 Comments Aa daily reflections july 14![]() ![]() I pray that I may live in the sunshine of God’s spirit. Let it have its way and all will be well. The Divine spirit heals and cures the mind. It makes glad the hearts of human beings. Faith is the soul’s breathing in of the Divine spirit. Let your whole being be enwrapped in the Divine spirit. We have to find a power by which we can live, and it has to be a power greater than ourselves.” Have I found that power by which I can live? But we have to face the fact that we must find a spiritual basis of life – or else. To be doomed to an alcoholic death or to live on a spiritual basis are not always easy alternatives to face. “To one who feels he is an atheist or agnostic, a spiritual experience seems impossible, but to continue as he is means disaster. ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. If that be the case, you may be suffering from an illness which only a spiritual experience will conquer.” If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking, you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic. Have you ever thought that the harm you did a business associate, or perhaps a family member, was so slight that it really didn’t deserve an apology because they probably wouldn’t remember it anyway? If that person, and the wrong done to him, keeps coming to mind, time and again, causing an uneasy or perhaps guilty feeling, then I put that person’s name at the top of my “amends list,” and become willing to make a sincere apology, knowing I will feel calm and relaxed about that person once this very important part of my recovery is accomplished.Ĭopyright © 1990 by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. In many instances we shall find that though the harm done others has not been great, the emotional harm we have done ourselves has. ![]()
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