Decisions

Today's Thought

You are reading from the book Twenty Four Hours a Day Hardcover (24 Hours).

A.A. Thought for the Day
Seventh, I can help other alcoholics. I am of some use in the world. I have a purpose in life. I am worth something at last. My life has a direction and a meaning. All that feeling of futility is gone. I can do something worthwhile. God has given me a new lease on life so that I can help other alcoholics. He has let me live through all the hazards of my alcoholic life to bring me at last to a place of real usefulness in the world. He has let me live for this. This is my opportunity and my destiny. I am worth something! Will I give as much of my life as I can to A.A.?

Meditation for the Day
All of us have our own battle to win, the battle between the material view of life and the spiritual view. Something must guide our lives. Will it be wealth, pride, selfishness, and greed or will it be faith, honesty, purity, unselfishness, love, and service? Each one has a choice. We can choose good or evil. We cannot choose both. Are we going to keep striving until we win the battle? If we win the victory, we can believe that even God in His heaven will rejoice.

Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may choose the good and resist the evil. I pray that I will not be a loser in the battle for righteousness.

Today. on several different occasions I was reminded about an important fact. I have choices today that I never had before. I am grateful for that fact. I often get caught up in life and forget my principals. I forget that I am not in charge anymore and that the decisions I make have to be based on a reliance on my Higher Powers will for me. That is the only way I can be assured that my decision is the right one. This reading really hit home in light of all that happened today. When I rely on my Higher Power then I am making my decision in the spiritual realm. When I forget that and let life influence my decisions I am coming from the materialistic realm. It is by maintaining a spiritual condition that I can keep the gift of sobriety I have been given, so it makes sense that my decision should be in the spiritual realm. I was reminded today that those things that I see as hurdles or obsticals my in fact be merely a lesson that my Higher Power means for me to learn from and that I am in fact suppose to go through them, not around them. Even though I struggled today and am emotionally drained I feel as though I am victorious today. I went through some tough stuff, but I learned so much about myself and the path to victory today.