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bluidkiti · 12-25-2024, 06:00 AM

December 25

Giving Comfort

It's better to comfort than to be comforted.

~St. Francis of Assisi

Our teachers, advisors, sponsors, and fellow members in our program find many ways to remind us that it is always more blessed to give than to receive, to love than to be loved. Often a newcomer is kindly told at his or her first meeting to "let us love you until you can learn to love yourself."

When we give of ourselves, we always get back spiritual rewards. The first eleven Steps of our program are aimed at building ourselves into better people, worthy of giving. Through those Steps, we learn to admit wrongs, accept challenges, find a Higher Power, turn problems over, inventory ourselves and ask release from shortcomings, make amends, and seek God's will for us. Then we are capable of giving this message to others.

The result of this dedication to always present the best of gifts for the benefit of others is self-reward. In comforting, we are comforted.

In giving of myself and of the principles learned from the Steps, I am forever reaching to be happy, joyous, and free.

Today's reading is from the book Easy Does It: A Book of Daily Twelve Step Meditations*

12-25-2024, 06:00 AM	#25
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 74,491	December 25 Giving Comfort It's better to comfort than to be comforted. ~St. Francis of Assisi Our teachers, advisors, sponsors, and fellow members in our program find many ways to remind us that it is always more blessed to give than to receive, to love than to be loved. Often a newcomer is kindly told at his or her first meeting to "let us love you until you can learn to love yourself." When we give of ourselves, we always get back spiritual rewards. The first eleven Steps of our program are aimed at building ourselves into better people, worthy of giving. Through those Steps, we learn to admit wrongs, accept challenges, find a Higher Power, turn problems over, inventory ourselves and ask release from shortcomings, make amends, and seek God's will for us. Then we are capable of giving this message to others. The result of this dedication to always present the best of gifts for the benefit of others is self-reward. In comforting, we are comforted. In giving of myself and of the principles learned from the Steps, I am forever reaching to be happy, joyous, and free. Today's reading is from the book Easy Does It: A Book of Daily Twelve Step Meditations* __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.

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