"Prayer is the best answer to all of the trials that face us,
because without prayer, even if we succeed in accomplishing some great
goal in the eyes of men, we have failed in our sacred responsibilities,
and thus we have failed in what is truly
important." Thomas Yellowtail Crow We
A.A.'s are active folk, enjoying the satisfactions of dealing with the
realities of life, usually for the first time in our lives, and
strenuously trying to help the next alcoholic who comes along. So it isn't
surprising that we often tend to slight serious meditation and prayer as
something not really necessary. To be sure, we feel it is something that
might help us to meet an occasional emergency, but at first many of us are
apt to regard it as a somewhat mysterious skill of clergymen, from
which we may hope to get a secondhand benefit. Or perhaps we don't believe
in these things at all. Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions pg.
96 Now, what about prayer? Prayer is the raising of the heart and mind
to God--and in this sense it includes
meditation. Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions pg.
102 Creator remind us of our sacred duties.
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