10 Meditations For Today
Channel: AA - Recovered - Alcoholics Anonymous - AA100011
Date: 2020-03-12

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10 Meditations For Today


1.  I will be happy. I will have no expectations nor will I make demands today. I will give up my need to "know" anything or "understand" anything. Instead, I shall pause and seek the will and guidance of God, which will come intuitively, if I just become still and quiet.  

2.  I will adjust myself to what "is", and not try to adjust everything to my own desires. I will take my "luck" as it comes, and fit myself to the "Stream of Life".  

3.  I will try to live through this day only and not tackle my whole life problem at once. I can do something for twelve hours that would appall me if I felt that I had to keep it up for a lifetime.   

4.  I will be agreeable. I will look as well as I can, dress becomingly, talk low, act courteously, criticize not one bit, not find fault with anything and not try to improve or regulate anybody except myself. 
 
5.  It is none of my business what anyone thinks about me or about anything else and I don't have the power to make anyone change. That's God's job.  

6.  I will remember that it is not the experience of TODAY that drives men mad -it is remorse or bitterness for something which happened YESTERDAY and the dread of what TOMORROW, may bring. 

I will remember that The Past is gone--it's just an image in my mind. I also have no stake in The future for it is as yet unborn. 

Therefore, The Present Moment is the only real moment and it is only in The Present Moment that a conscious contact with God can be found!  

7.  I will cease fighting anything or anyone -- even alcohol because, what I resist persists.  

8.  I will be unafraid. Especially I will not be afraid to enjoy what is beautiful. I will remember that I am a Spiritual Mirror and I will choose to believe that as I give Love to the world, so the world will reflect Love back to me.  

9.  I will have a quiet half hour all by myself, and relax. During this half hour, I will try to get a better perspective of my life. My goal is a "sane" peace of mind through spiritual living.  

10.  I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do someone a good turn, and not get found out; if anybody knows of it, it will not count. I will do at least two things I don't want to do just for exercise.



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STEP 1
We admitted we were 
powerless over alcohol - that 
our lives had become 
unmanageable.


STEP 2
Came to believe that a Power 
greater than ourselves could 
restore us to sanity


STEP 3
Made a decision to turn our 
will and our lives over to the 
care of God as we understood 
Him.


STEP 4
Made a searching and fearless 
moral inventory of ourselves.


STEP 5
Admitted to God, to ourselves, 
and to another human being 
the exact nature of our wrongs.


STEP 6
Were entirely ready to have 
God remove all these defects 
of character.


STEP 7
Humbly asked Him to remove 
our shortcomings.


STEP 8
Made a list of all persons we 
had harmed, and became 
willing to make amends to 
them all.


STEP 9
Made direct amends to such 
people wherever possible, 
except when to do so would 
injure them or others.


STEP 10
Continued to take personal 
inventory and when we were 
wrong promptly admitted it.


STEP 11
Sought through prayer and 
meditation to improve our 
conscious contact with God as 
we understood Him, praying 
only for knowledge of 
His will for us and the power 
to carry that out.


STEP 12
Having had a spiritual 
awakening as the result of 
these steps, we tried to 
carry this message to 
alcoholics, and to practice 
these principles in all 
our affairs.




SURRENDER
SHARING
AMENDS
GUIDANCE

HONESTY
PURITY
UNSELFISHNESS
LOVE

TRUST GOD
CLEAN HOUSE
HELP OTHERS


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