Hi,
I just got this off of compuserve, and I thought you might find this
interesting
If God Spoke to A.A.
He Might Have Said:
INTO YOUR WEAK AND FEEBLE
hands I have entrusted  a Power beyond
your estimate.To you has been given that
which has been denied the most learned of
your fellows.  Not to scientists or statesmen,
not to wives or mothers, not even to
priests and ministers have I given this gift
of healing other alcoholics, which l entrust
to you.  It must  be used unselfishly. It carries
with it  grave responsibility.  No day can be
too long, no demands upon your time can be
too urgent, no case too pitiable, no task too
hard, no effort too great.  It  must  be used
with tolerance, for l have restricted its
application  to no race, no creed and no
denomination.
Personal criticism you must expect,
lack of appreciation will be common,
ridicule will be your lot, your motives will be
mis-judged. Success will not always attend
your efforts in your work with other alcoholics.
You must be prepared for adversity, for what
men call adversity is the Iadder you must
use to ascend the rung toward spiritual
perfection. I shall not exact  of you beyond
your capabilities.
YOU ARE NOT SELECTED BECAUSE OF
exceptional talents; and be careful always, if
success attends your efforts, not to ascribe to
personal superiority that to which you can
lay claim only by virtue of  My gift.  If I had
wanted learned men to accomplish this
mission, the power would have been entrusted
to the physician and the scientist.  If I had
wanted eloquent men there would have been
many anxious  for the assignment , for talk Is
the easiest used of all talents with which I
have endowed mankind.  If I had wanted
scholarly men, the world Is filled with better
qualified than you who would have been
available. You were selected because you
have been outcasts of the world, as your long
experience as a drunkard has made, or
should make you, humbly alert lo the cries
of distress that come from the lonely hearts
of alcoholics everywhere.
Keep ever in mind the admission that
you made on the day of your profession
of A A - namely-that you are powerless,
and that it was only with your willingness lo turn
your life and will into My keeping, that relief
came to you.
THINK NOT, THAT BECAUSE YOU
have been dry one year or two years,
or ten years, that it is the result of your unaided
efforts. The help which has been keeping you
normal will keep you  so just as  Iong as you
live this program which I have mapped out
for you.  Beware of the pride that comes from
growth, the power of numbers and invidious
comparisons between yourselves, or your
organisation with other organisations whose
success depends on numbers, money and
position. These material things are no part
of  your creed. The success of  material
organisation comes from the pooling of  joint
assets; yours from the union of mutual
liabilities. Appeal for membership in material
organisations is based upon a boastful recital
of their accomplishments; yours on the humble
admission of weakness;  the motto of successful
commercial enterprise is : 'He profits most
who serves best' , yours: He 'serves best who
seeks no profit'.  The wealth of material
organisations, when they take their inventory,
is measured by 'what they have left '; yours,
when you take moral inventory, by 'what you
have given'.
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--- Blue Wave/RA v2.12
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