AA Thought for the Day

July 2, 2002

A Beginning

My friend suggested what then seemed a novel idea.
He said,
"Why don't you choose your own conception of God?"

That statement hit me hard.
It melted the icy intellectual mountain
in whose shadow I had lived and shivered many years.
I stood in the sunlight at last.

It was only a matter of being willing
to believe in a Power greater than myself.
Nothing more was required of me to make my beginning.
I saw that growth could start from that point.
Upon a foundation of complete willingness
I might build what I saw in my friend.
Would I have it? Of course I would!
- Bill W.

Reprinted from Alcoholics Anonymous, Page 12, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

The most important move is to begin.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

A B C = Acceptance, Begin, Continue.


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