AA Thought for the Day
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April 11, 2021
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Pride and Fear
So when A.A. suggests a fearless moral inventory, it must seem to every
newcomer that more is being asked of him than he can do. Both his pride
and his fear beat him back every time he tries to look within himself. Pride
says, "You need not pass this way," and Fear says, "You dare not look!"
But the testimony of A.A.'s who have really tried a moral inventory is that
pride and fear of this sort turn out to be bogeymen, nothing else.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Four) p. 49
Thought to Ponder
Swallowing my pride will not get me drunk.
AA-related 'Alconym'
P R I D E = Pretty Ridiculous Individual Directing Everything.
A Member Shares:
My name is Mike and I'm an alcoholic. Fear and pride, well false pride, ah, the eternal siblings. The false pride I carried, at times still carry, is what stirred the fear that I wasn't really what others thought I was. Not realizing most never thought about me at all.
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Grateful to serve,
peyton
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