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Good Morning!!!
God grant me the Serenity
to accept the things
I cannot change;
Courage to change
the things I can;
and Wisdom
to know the difference.
Thy will, not mine, be done.
*~*~*~*~*^Daily Reflections^*~
June 28, 2024
THE DETERMINATION
OF OUR FOUNDERS
A year and six months later
these three had succeeded with seven more.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 159
If it had not been for
the fierce determination of our founders,
A.A. would have quickly faded
like so many other so-called good causes.
I look at the hundreds of meetings weekly
in the city where I live and I know
A.A. is available twenty-four hours a day.
If I had had to hang on with nothing
but hope and a desire not to drink,
experiencing rejection wherever I went,
I would have sought the easier, softer way
and returned to my previous way of life.
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Circle and Triangle
Above us, at the International Convention
at St. Louis in 1955,
floated a banner on which was inscribed
the then new symbol for A.A.,
a circle enclosing a triangle.
The circle stands for the whole world of A.A.,
and the triangle stands for A.A.'s Three Legacies,
Recovery, Unity, and Service.
It is perhaps no accident that
priests and seers of antiquity
regarded this symbol as a means of
warding off spirits of evil.
When, in 1955, we old-timers
turned over our Three Legacies
to the whole movement,
nostalgia for the old days blended with gratitude
for the great day in which I was now living.
No more would it be necessary for me
to act for, decide for, or protect A.A.
For a moment, I dreaded the coming change.
But this mood quickly passed.
The conscience of A.A.
as moved by the guidance of God
could be depended upon to insure A.A.'s future.
Clearly my job henceforth was to let go and let God.
A.A. COMES OF AGE
1. P. 139
2. PP. 46, 48
As Bill Sees It, P. 307
© 1967 by Alcoholics Anonymous
® World Services, Inc
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