Those adolescent urges that so many of us have
for top approval, perfect security, and perfect romance
-- urges quite appropriate to age seventeen --
prove to be an impossible way of life
when we are of age forty-seven or fifty-seven.
Since AA began, I've taken immense wallops
in all these areas because of my failure to grow up,
emotionally and spiritually.
My God, how painful it is to keep demanding the impossible,
and how very painful to discover, finally,
that all along we have had the cart before the horse!
- Bill W., January 1958.

Thought to Ponder....

The willingness to grow
is the essence of all spiritual development.

Recovery Related Acronym

A A = Achieve Anything.