#Aa daily reflections april 2nd how to#

“We are only operating a spiritual kindergarten in which people are enabled to get over drinking and find the grace to go on living to better effect. I pray that God will interpret to me the personalities of other people, so that I can understand them and help them. I pray that I may be in the right relationship to God. Here we find the miracles of change and the true interpretation of life. God alone understands perfectly the language of each and can interpret between the two. And only as God enters and controls their lives are the mysteries of each revealed to the other. Even personalities who are the nearest together have much in their natures that remains a seated book to each other. God is the great interpreter of one human personality to another. Forgetting ourselves in fellowship, prayer, and working with others is what makes the A.A. And it teaches them to rely more on the fellowship of others and on strength from God.

works because it gets people away from themselves as the center of the universe. One of the reasons that I’m a happy, sober alcoholic today is that I’m learning this most important lesson. From my very first meeting, I saw people doing just that and I wanted what they had.

#Aa daily reflections april 2nd how to#

This message contained in Step Four was the first one I heard loud and clear I hadn’t seen myself in print before! Prior to my coming into A.A., I knew of no place that could teach me how to become a person among persons. Of true brotherhood we had small comprehension. This self-centered behavior blocked a partnership relation with any one of those about us. Always we tried to struggle to the top of the heap, or to hide underneath it. Help me to face myself, that I may come to face this life as the gift it is.We have not once sought to be one in a family, to be a friend among friends, to be a worker among workers, to be a useful member of society. I know today that I need fundamental change in my life to find the happiness and serenity I so desperately sought when I first came into the program. Today, I am no longer under the delusion that my life will get better because I wish it, or if I just stop acting out. Getting down to the causes and conditions helps me change my life for the better.

In trusting the process, I had to be willing to do different things to get different results. As uncomfortable as it was, I saw the pain I had caused, and I knew I could not run away from my problems anymore. I trust the program (that is, God) to help me deal with what I found out about myself from doing Steps Four and Five with my sponsor. I also knew that, if I faced them now, I would find the help I needed and maybe some serenity. However, once I got into recovery, I instinctively knew there were underlying problems I had never dealt with. Naturally, my life continued to get worse. I wanted my life to be different, but the deeper I got into my sex addiction, the less I was willing and able to look at my part. I knew for a long time that something was wrong with me, but I could not pinpoint what it was. “Step Six builds on the recognition that our malady has roots that run deeper than just our acting-out behavior.”