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In the morning, we should think about the day ahead and ask God to guide our thoughts, free from self-pity and dishonesty. By clearing our minds of wrong motives, we can think on a higher level. When faced with a decision, we can ask God for inspiration and then relax, often finding the right answer. We should also pray to be shown our next step and seek freedom from self-will throughout the day. To achieve emotional sobriety, we must develop maturity and humility in our relationships with ourselves, others, and God. AA should not be exclusive and we should share our experiences to benefit others. AA members should bring the spirit of AA into all areas of life, as we have been saved and reintegrated into society. 243 Morning Thoughts On awakening, let us think about the 24 hours ahead. We ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity and from dishonesty for self-seeking motives. Free from these, we can employ our mental facilities with assurance, for God gave us brains to use. Our thought life will be on a higher plane when our thinking begins to be cleared of wrong motives. If we determine which of two courses to take, we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision, then we relax and take it easy, and we are often surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a while. We usually conclude our meditation with a prayer that we be shown throughout the day what our next step is to be, asking especially for freedom from damaging self-will. I'll call the anonymous page 86 and 87. 244 Towards Maturity Many Ulsters who have put out a booze cure to several but successful tests still find they often lack emotional sobriety. To attain this, we must develop real maturity, in balance, which is to say humility, in our relations with ourselves, with our fellows, and with God. Let AA never be a closed corporation, let us never deny our experience, for whatever it may be worth to the world around us. Let our individual members heed the call to every field of human endeavor, let them carry the experience and spirit of AA in all these affairs, for whatever good they may accomplish, for not only has God saved us from alcoholism, the world has received us back into its citizenship. John Grapevine, January 1958, to AA, comes of age, page 232-233.