Aa daily reflections hazelden8/15/2023 ![]() Change we must we cannot stand still.Ī principle is sometimes defined as a fundamental guide to action. For us, the status quo can only be today, never for tomorrow. What more can I want, or do? I’m fine the way I am.” We know that the price of such self-satisfaction is an inevitable backslide, punctuated at some point by a very rude awakening. How many of us would presume to declare, “Well, Im sober and I’m happy. There was always the alibi: “After all,” I said to myself, “I’m far too busy with much more important matters.” That was my near perfect prescription for comfort and complacency. In the first days of A.A., I wasn’t much bothered about the areas of life in which I was standing still. I pray that I may so live that I will not be afraid to die. I pray that I will not come empty to the end of my life. What does it matter if I have gained the whole world, but lost my own soul? Death is ahead, and they cannot take any material thing with them when they go. No matter how much material wealth they acquire, no matter how much fame and material power, the time of disillusionment and futility usually comes. Many people try to be self-sufficient and seek selfish pleasure and find that it does not work too well. People are always failures in the deepest sense when they seek to live without God’s sustaining power. as a challenge, and I shall do my best to accept every challenge and perform my task as best I can. I shall accept every opportunity to work for A.A. I shall not wait to be drafted for service to others, but I shall volunteer. To the extent that I fail in my responsibilities, A.A. I am grateful to those who were here when I needed them. All of the Steps, and this particular Tradition, have guided me over decades of continuous sobriety. I saw Tradition Twelve as being a great ego-deflator it relieved my anger and gave me a chance to utilize the principles of the program. I became aware after I joined the Fellowship that I had personality problems, so that when I first heard it, the Tradition’s message was very clear: there exists an immediate way for me to face, with others, my alcoholism and attendant anger, defensiveness, offensiveness. ![]() Tradition Twelve became important early in my sobriety and, along with the Twelve Steps, it continues to be a must in my recovery. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
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