Tuesday May 5th reflection

1. a date to my work cocktail hour. 2. employment 3. my mom to vent to 4. my sister so close to me. 5. beautiful art work.  Today the writer continues with building myself up. that even  in sobriety we tend to boost. Question: am i always in danger of becoming conceded just because i am sober?   Yes. I think i'm too conceited. i try to act as if  i'm not but it's a huge shortcoming.  So the answer is yes. i'm a work in progress.  The meditation contemplates how we truly ascertain the spiritual.

May 5—AA Thought for the Day I had to show off and boast so that people would think I amounted to something, when, of course, both they and I knew that I really didn’t amount to anything. I didn’t fool anybody. Although I’ve been sober for quite a while, the old habit of building myself up is still with me. I still have a tendency to think too well of myself and to pretend to be more than I really am. Am I always in danger of becoming conceited just because I’m sober? Meditation for the Day I cannot ascertain the spiritual with my intellect. I can only do it with my own faith and spiritual faculties. I must think of God more with my heart than with my head. I can breathe in God’s very spirit in the life around me. I can keep my eyes turned toward the good things in the world. I am shut up in a box of space and time, but I can open a window in that box by faith. I can empty my mind of all the limitations of material things. I can sense the Eternal. Prayer for the Day I pray that whatever is good I may have. I pray that I may leave to God the choice of what good will come to me.