For awhile, we are going back to the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous, and pick out passages here and there, so that they may become fixed in our minds, a little at a time, day by day, as we go along. There is no substitute for reading the Big Book. It is our "bible." We should study it thoroughly and make it a part of ourselves. We should not try to change any of it. Within its covers is the full exposition of the A.A. program. There is no substitute for it. We should study it often. Have I studied the Big Book faithfully?
Meditation For The Day
All of life is a fluctuation between effort and rest. You need both every day. But effort is not truly effective until first you have had the proper preparation for it, by resting in a time of quiet meditation. This daily time of rest and meditation gives you the power necessary to make your best effort. There are days when you are called on for much effort and then comes a time when you need much rest. It is not good to rest too long and it is not good to carry on great effort too long without rest. The successful life is a proper balance between the two.
Prayer For The Day
I pray that I may be ready to make the proper effort. I pray that I may also recognize the need for relaxation.
The practice of Balance, sometimes I really need a push to excert that effort needed to take care daily of mind, body and Spirit. And add taking care of my own surroundings after that, garden, house, meetings, many things to keep in Balance, and the start of every day, for me is in these Readings. They take me out of "me" and into a dimention that is outside of me, a very positive thought, turn it into a pause, meditate on it, and keep the Prayer as the active part.
Sometimes I stuggle with the "How to" of keeping God first in everything, and these readings are a guide to doing that, and as suggested above, everything we need to know about our Disease can be found in a daily referencing of our beloved AA Big Book.
As someone said yesterday in a Response, Just bring your mind and body, the Spirit will be there.
