June 24 - The primary purpose of the Gamblers Anonymous Program is
freedom from compulsive gambling; without that freedom we have nothing.
But that doesn't mean I can say, for example, "Compulsive gambling is
my only concern. Except for that, I'm really a super person, so give me
freedom from gambling, and I've got it made." If I delude myself with
such specious nonsense, I'll make so little progress with my real life
problems and responsibilities that I'll likely return to my addiction.
That's why the Program's Twelfth Step urges us to "practice these
principles in all our affairs."
Am I living just to be free of the compulsion to gamble, or also to learn, to serve, and to love?
Today I Pray - May I relish and be grateful for my abstinence, which is
where all good things begin. But let me not stop at that and give up
trying to understand myself, the nature of God and of humanity. Freedom
from addiction is the first freedom. May I be certain that there are
more to come - freedom from tight-mindedness, from the unrest of
bottled-up feelings, from over dependence on others, from a Godless
existence. May the Program which answered my acute needs also answer my
chronic ones.
Today I Will Remember - Liberation from gambling is just a beginning.
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