Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me mind my own business today. Second, don’t listen to gossip about others. We can do two things to help keep the trust in our groups, and in the rest of our lives too. We need to know our private business won’t spread around. We all need to feel safe when we share our personal lives with others. Gossip can kill the trust in a Twelve Step program. Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. I won’t be a doormat, but I will remember that I always have the choice of making anything a positive experience. Somebody may come to me today with something that makes my blood boil. The peace and serenity we feel is our reward, and, like Brengle, we’ll become better people who can be of real service to others. We can turn any such experience into an opportunity for growth by praying to see God’s hand in the matter and refusing to fight about it. What’s more likely is that we’ll encounter situations that would our pride or churn up resentment. It’s not likely any of us will have to clean shoes for subordinates today. Later on, Brengle became an inspiration to thousands. He later recalled the utter joy he felt as he cleaned the shoes and prayed for each person. A gifted ministerial student of the nineteenth century, he joined the Salvation Army only to find himself sent to a cellar to clean the shoes of other cadets, most of them far below him in learning and intelligence.īrengle used that humbling experience to conquer his pride and resentment. ![]() regeneration: strength arising out of my complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one’s old life as a condition for finding a new one.ĭid you ever hear of a man named Samuel Logan Brengle? He was a Salvation Army office whose spiritual consciousness was legendary. If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind, nor any lurking notion that some day we will be immune to alcohol. I pray that I may fully trust God to take care of them. I pray that I may put all my difficulties in God’s hands and leave them there. We please God more by our unquestioning confidence than by imploring Him for help. So I will trust God like a child who places its tangled skein of wool in the hands of a loving mother to unravel. It is not the passionate appeal that gains the Divine attention as much as the quiet placing of the difficulty and worry in the Divine Hands. I will link my life with the Divine Force for Good I will link up my frail nature with the limitless Divine Do I believe that liquor will poison my life if I ever touch it again? And I’m going to keep training my mind never even to think of liquor again in any way except as a poison. So with the help of God and A.A., I’m not going to take any more of that alcoholic poison into my system. My life is happier now than it has been for a long time. It poisoned my whole life, until I met A.A. ******************************************Īfter I became an alcoholic, alcohol poisoned my love for my family and friends, it poisoned my ambition, it poisoned my self-respect. As a result of these Steps, I can say today that my attitude towards life, people, and towards anything having to do with God, has been transformed and improved. Through progressive means, I try to live= according to these suggested principles. Fellowship, thanks especially to the sharing of members in meetings, I understood that everyone gradually finds his or her own pace in moving through the Steps. After a few twenty-four hours in the A.A. I had to discover, as time went on, that my path was my own. ![]() ![]() fortunate to have gone through such a major, even sensational, spiritual experience. My first attempt at the Steps was one of obligation and necessity, which resulted in a deep feeling of discouragement in the face of all those adverbs: courageously completely humbly directly and only. … there was nothing left for us but to pick up the simple kit of spiritual tools laid at our feet.
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