AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AA-Alive.net)
September 11, 2016
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Change
It never occurred to us that we needed to change ourselves to meet conditions, whatever they were.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 47
Thought to Ponder . . .
Learn to change, change to learn.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A B C = Acceptance, Belief, Change.
A Member Shares:
My name is Pammy, and I have alcoholism. When I came in AA I was just an observer, looking for reasons and excuses not to stay. I was always a firm believer that when I tried something new, life as I knew it knew would end. And as any alkie knows, we don't like change. So I was as resistant and defiant as if I were in an arm-wrestling match that I’d lost, yet won at the same time. Coming back to AA again, I was put to task in facing my fears. Phone service was one of them...I hated talking to others because I would stutter severely. My Mom used to say it was because my tongue was tripping over lies. And she was right. It was a kind of self-preservation to keep others from knowing me, so I would make things up. But the more I was learning, the more I was changing. So yes, life as I knew it was over. I no longer stutter when I talk, and I can let others look me in the eyes, as they are mirrors of the soul. It allows me to expand a curiosity into what else can I do for me through working with others. There is a quote I read daily, or when I feel stuck and sense some of my old stinking-thinking coming back: "When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars talked, not of her beauty, but of her weirdness, and they wanted her to change back to what she had always been...but she had wings." Thank you.
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