Thought for today:

Humility is an acquired taste. No one seeks it without exhausting the opposites of arrogance, haughtiness, pride, anger, fear…

Practicing the 12 steps can lead to humility, to a place where we can have a spiritual awakening sufficient to replace our compulsion to live beyond our means.

In the past we may have been “programmed” to overindulge in debt. Today, by seeking Humility, we walk through the steps on solid ground to a spiritual awakening.  But we are not done. We have only started our journey!

The road we are on is the road of sanity and freedom. If we stray from the path and start to think that we “have debt under control”, recovery from this disease could come to a screeching halt.

Remember when we admitted we were powerless of debt in step one?  Without DA, we could find ourselves going back down the steps the same way we climbed them, only backwards, and start to believe that we can toy with opening credit card accounts instead of relying on debit cards.  We might convince ourselves we could manage without the principles outlined in DA’s Twelve Steps.

But that miserable life is now behind us!  And all it takes is little humility to face the road ahead.

Will I remember how bad it was when I was in charge, and how good it is getting today? Will I remember that I need DA more than ever?

Meditation for today:

We need to stay on this road of recovery regardless of whether We start to feel “all better” again. Complacency in this sense works against us. As we get better, instead of congratulating ourselves, we must thank our Higher Power, the try source of our recovery, in true humility.

Affirmation for today:

As I let the principle of Humility work in my life, realizing my total reliance on a Higher Power is the solution, miracles happen – sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly. The blessed fact of my recovery is a miracle that continues to evolve in incredible healing ways. Only my own selfishness could end this blessed journey of recovery.

Prayer for today:

I pray I never forget the miracle of my recovery. Don’t let me entertain the thought that this recovery was all my doing. May I follow you always!

Further Reading:

The book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions is the definitive guide to all the Steps and Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous.  It brings an in-depth understanding of why and how the program of recovery evolved, and how it works to this day, over sixty years after it was first published.

DA adapted the short form of the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions almost word for word (with AA’s permission) and to this day DA recommends we read AA literature, (including the “Twelve and Twelve“) as a way for us to understand the disease concept.

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