Stalwart Santa Barbara Sober Living Homes Daily Inspiration

For Today:

“Faith is more than our greatest gift; its sharing

with others is our greatest responsibility. May we

of A.A. continually seek the wisdom and the will-

ingness by which we may well fulfill that immense

trust which the Giver of all perfect gifts has placed

in our hands.”

As Bill Sees It, pg. 13

The Shared Gift

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For Today:

“Those of us who have spent much time in the world
of spiritual make-believe have eventually seen the
childishness of it. This dream world has been replaced
by a great sense of purpose, accompanied by a growing
consciousness of the power of God in our lives. We have
come to believe He would like us to keep our heads in
the clouds with Him, but that our feet ought to be firmly
planted on earth. This is where our fellow travelers are,
and that is where our work must be done. These are the
realities for us. We have found nothing incompatible
between a powerful spiritual experience and a life of sane
and happy usefulness.”

Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 130
The Family Afterward

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For Today:

“Practical experience shows that nothing will so much
insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with
other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail.”

Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 89
Working With Others

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For Today:

“When I am willing to do the right thing, I am rewarded with

an inner peace no amount of liquor could ever provide. When

I am unwilling to do the right thing, I become restless, irritable,

and discontent. It is always my choice. Through the Twelve Steps,

I have been granted the gift of choice. I am no longer at the mercy

of a disease that tells me the only answer is to drink. If willingness

is the key to unlock the gates of hell, it is action that opens those

doors so that we may walk freely among the living.”

Alcoholics Anonymous, 4^th Edition, pg. 317

My Chance To Live

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For Today:

“For it is by self-forgetting that one finds. It is by forgiving
that one is forgiven. It is by dying that one awakens to
Eternal Life. Amen.”
As beginners in meditation , we might now reread this
prayer several times very slowly, savoring every word and
trying to take in the deep meaning of each phrase and idea.”

12 Steps & 12 Traditions, pg. 99
Step Eleven

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For Today:

“In A.A., the reporting is clear and unmistakable . ‘Here are
the steps we took,’ say those who have gone before. The
newcomer finally sees that he, too, must take these Steps
before he is entitled to report on them. And in an atmosphere
where the constant subject is ‘What I did’ and ‘What I think,’
no neurotic can long resist the temptation to get in on the action.”

A Member’s Eye View of Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 17
World Services pamphlet P-41