AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AA-Alive.net)
October 17, 2014
Burdens
But how often do we begin to fill our newly emptied backpacks anew under fresh loads.
It is as if we had to become accustomed to carrying all that junk around, almost as if we had grown fond of the burden.
So we need to take an occasional look (every day?) into our backpacks to see if we haven't tossed in a stone every now and then.
And when we discover some load of guilt or shame, some wrong we may have committed, we can toss it out.
Otherwise, we spend all our lives struggling to walk, burdened by these impediments.
- The Best Of The Grapevine [Vol. 3], p. 215
Thought to Ponder . . .
The first step in overcoming mistakes is to admit them.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A A = Always Aware.
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