November 12

November 12 – AM          Page 132-133, The Family Afterward, Chapter 9

Everybody knows that those in bad health, and those who seldom play, do not laugh much.  So let each family play together or separately, as much as their circumstances warrant.  We are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free.  We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us.  But it is clear that we made our own misery.  God didn’t do it.  Avoid then, the deliberate manufacture of misery, but if trouble comes, cheerfully capitalize it as an opportunity to demonstrate His omnipotence.

November 12 – PM          Page 88, Into Action, Chapter 6

It works—it really does.
We alcoholics are undisciplined.  So we let God discipline us in the simple way we have just outlined.
But this is not all.  There is action and more action.  “Faith without works is dead.”  The next chapter is entirely devoted to Step Twelve.