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Day 9 Stools & Bottles

Ninth Daily Reminder -

Reservation, doubt and fear assail the minds of newcomers and impede their recovery in AA. Salesmen doubt their ability to sell without the aid of alcohol. Some fear that their identity will be disclosed. Others wonder how to avoid bars and drinking friends or what alibi to offer for their sobriety.

Daily Inventory -

Can we hold reservations and live the 12 Steps? Is fear a sign of future failure? Do we avoid drinking friends? How does AA answer these questions?

Suggested Meditation -

The book Alcoholics Anonymous holds the answers to all of our recovery problems. From it we learn that distrust and fear are dangerous mental attitudes for alcoholics to hold. It suggests that our security and sobriety will come from faith in God and practice of the 12 Steps. It explains our future conduct with drinking friends and the reason we give them for our abstinence. See your Big Book.

Spiritual Contact -

Our Father, replace our reservations and fear with faith, courage and AA understanding. Inspire us with an honest desire to succeed in AA.

Daily Physical Audit -

After varying periods of sobriety we often complain of physical fatigue, vague pain, arthritis, gastric disturbances and insomnia. We contribute them to the sober lives we are leading and reach for a box of pills or some patented elixir. There are better antidotes for health. Perhaps we should lower our daily cigarette and coffee consumptions, stop living on coffee and dessert and try sleeping eight hours every night.