AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AA-Alive.net)
March 30, 2016
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Change
The essence of all growth is a willingness to change for the better
and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails.
- As Bill Sees It, p. 115
Thought to Ponder . . .
Learn to change, change to learn.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A B C = Acceptance, Beliief,Change.
A Member Shares:
Hi all, I'm Deb, and I am an alcoholic. I still get a good chuckle at recalling my amazement when I was first sober for a couple of weeks and thinking how clear my thinking was. Then another lift of fog at a month and thinking, that at 2 weeks, I wasn't thinking clearly, but now I was. And that kept going for months and months. All I know right now is that my mind is a scary place to be alone. And when I am disturbed, my thoughts bounce around in my head like a pong game, never ending. I can over-think things, under-think things, project futures I have no control over. I can rehash dirty deeds done to me, and plot revenge I would never carry out. That's what happens in my unsupervised mind. I guess it goes along with being an alcoholic. But this alkie has the program to help me through; it reminds me I am not God. I can only change me, and I have lots more changing to do on ME. For today, I accept where I am, grateful for what I have today, and want to continue to grow and perhaps even grow up. By the grace of God and the program of AA and the goodness of the fellowship, I am sober today. Thank you.
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Blessings in sobriety to all,
In love and service,
joanna b
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