AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy aa-alive.net)
April 1, 2025
Tradition Three
“The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.”
Why did A.A. finally drop all its membership regulations? . . . The answer,
now seen in Tradition Three, was simplicity itself. At last experience taught
us that to take away any alcoholic's full chance was sometimes to pronounce
his death sentence, and often to condemn him to endless misery. Who dared
to be judge, jury, and executioner of his own sick brother? As group after group
saw these possibilities, they finally abandoned all membership regulations.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Tradition Three) p. 141
Thought to Ponder . . .
God grant that AA may ever stay simple.
AA-related 'Alconym'
A A = All Accepted.
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