Stalwart Santa Barbara Sober Living Homes Daily Inspiration

“Love and Service”

For Today:

 

“Our Twelve Steps, when simmered down to the last,

resolve themselves into the words ‘Love’ and ‘Service’.

 

Dr. Bob & The Good Oldtimers, pg. 338

His Last Talk

 

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WITHIN

For Today:

 

“We found the Great Reality deep within us.”

 

Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 55

We Agnostics

 

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PERSPECTIVE

For Today:

 

“We had lacked the perspective to see that

character-building and spiritual values had

to come first, and that material satisfactions

were not the purpose of living.”

 

12 Steps & 12 Traditions, pg. 71

Step Seven

 

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FOUNDATION

For Today:

 

“The attainment of greater humility

is the foundation principle of each

of A.A.’s Twelve Steps.”

 

12 Steps & 12 Traditions, pg. 70

Step Seven

 

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COOPERATION

For Today:

 

“If we ask, God will certainly forgive our derelictions.

But in no case does He render us white as snow and

keep us that way without our cooperation.”

 

12 Steps & 12 Traditions, pg. 65

Step Six

 

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BUILDING

For Today:

 

“God asks only that we try as best we know how

to make progress in the building of character.”

 

12 Steps & 12 Traditions, pg. 65

Step Six

 

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SIMPLE

For Today:

 

“I have found that in simple faith I get results by placing

my life in God’s hands every day, by asking Him to keep

me sober for 24 hours, and trying to do His will. He has

never let me down yet.”

 

Alcoholics Anonymous, 1st Edition, pg. 273

The Back-Slider

 

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PROVEN

For Today:

 

“I have proven to myself and to many others who know

me that God can keep a man sober if he will let Him.”

 

Experience, Strength & Hope, pg. 255

The European Drinker, Alcoholics Anonymous 3rd Edition

 

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PROVEN

For Today:

 

“I have proven to myself and to many others who know

me that God can keep a man sober if he will let Him.”

 

Experience, Strength & Hope, pg. 255

The European Drinker, Alcoholics Anonymous 3rd Edition

 

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GRACIOUS

For Today:

 

“I have gained the greatest thing accorded to any man, the love

and understanding of a gracious God, who has lifted me from

the alcoholic scrap heap to a position of trust.”

 

Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, pg. 267

He Sold Himself Short

 

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