You are reading from the book Twenty Four Hours a Day Hardcover (24 Hours).
A.A. Thought for the Day
Here are answers to the question of how a person can live without liquor and be happy: "The things we put in place of drinking are more than substitutes for it. One is the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous. In this company, you find release from care, boredom, and worry. Your imagination will be fired. Life will mean something at last. The most satisfactory years of your existence lie ahead. Among other A.A.s you will make lifelong friends. You will be bound to them with new and wonderful ties." Does life mean something to me now?
Meditation for the Day
Do you want the full and complete satisfaction that you find in serving God and all the satisfactions of the world also? It is not easy to serve both God and the world. It is difficult to claim the rewards of both. If you work for God, you will still have great rewards in the world. But you must be prepared to sometimes stand apart from the world. You cannot always turn to the world and expect all the rewards which life has to offer. If you are trying sincerely to serve God, you will have other and greater rewards than the world as to offer.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may not expect too much from the world. I pray that I may also be content with the rewards that come from serving God.
A.A. Thought for the Day
Here are answers to the question of how a person can live without liquor and be happy: "The things we put in place of drinking are more than substitutes for it. One is the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous. In this company, you find release from care, boredom, and worry. Your imagination will be fired. Life will mean something at last. The most satisfactory years of your existence lie ahead. Among other A.A.s you will make lifelong friends. You will be bound to them with new and wonderful ties." Does life mean something to me now?
Meditation for the Day
Do you want the full and complete satisfaction that you find in serving God and all the satisfactions of the world also? It is not easy to serve both God and the world. It is difficult to claim the rewards of both. If you work for God, you will still have great rewards in the world. But you must be prepared to sometimes stand apart from the world. You cannot always turn to the world and expect all the rewards which life has to offer. If you are trying sincerely to serve God, you will have other and greater rewards than the world as to offer.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may not expect too much from the world. I pray that I may also be content with the rewards that come from serving God.
I went to a meeting tonight and this reading is very similar to the one read at the meeting. The topic talked about how we expected sobriety when we came to this progam, but got something way different. That is so true for me. My expectations of what I would gain from this program have far been exceeded. I have a life now that is beyond anything I imagined possible. It continues to grow and change and I know there are more wonderful things to come. My spiritual growth blossoms everyday and with it come more rewards. These rewards are not material things like those I always thought I wanted.....they are things far better........a release from fear, friendships, peace, serenity, a pathway - guide to live by, family, love, pain, and biggest of all is hope. I have hope in my heart which is something I never dreamed possible. I am filled gratitude today....I owe all this to my Higher Power, and the fellowship with whom I have learned a new way to live.
