Daily Meditations From the A. A. Book: Twenty-Four Hours a Day
You are never alone with your struggles with addiction with God beside you!
All thoughts, meditations and prayers for the day, come from the 1975 edition of Twenty-Four Hours a Day published by Hazelden Publishing. It is a small booklet written for AA members.
“The Serenity Prayer”
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Thought for the Day
Another of the mottoes of A.A. is “Live and let live.” This of course means tolerance of people who think differently than we do, whether they are in A.A. or outside of A.A. We cannot afford the luxury of being intolerant or critical of other people. We do not try to impose our wills on those who differ from us. We are not “holier than thou.” We do not have all the answers. We are not better than other good people. We live the best way we can and we allow others to do likewise. Am I willing to live and let live?”
Meditation for the Day
“And this is life eternal, that we may know Thee, the only true God.” Learning to know God as best you can draws the eternal life nearer to you. Freed from some of the limitations of humanity, you can grow in the things that are eternal. You can strive for what is real and of eternal value. The more you try to live in the conscience of the Unseen world, the gentler will be your passing into it when the time comes for you to go. This life on earth should be largely a preparation for the eternal like to come.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may live each day as though it were my last. I pray that I may live my life as thought it were everlasting.
