AA Thought for the Day

October 18, 2002

A Quest

How foolish I had been in my quest for spiritual help.
How selfish and egotistical I had been
to think that I could approach God intellectually.
In the very struggle to obtain faith I had lost it.
I had given to the term faith a religious significance only.
I had failed to see that faith was
"our common everyday manner of thinking."
That good and evil were but end results
of certain uniform and reliable spiritual laws.
Obviously, my own thinking had been decidedly wrong.
Normal most of the time,
it was abnormal at the wrong times.
Like everyone's thinking, it was a mixture of good and bad,
but mainly it was uncontrolled.
From "An Artist's Concept," the writer designed the dust cover for the First Edition.

Reprinted from Alcoholics Anonymous, First Edition, Page 384, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

People of faith
have a logical idea of what life is all about.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

F A I T H = Finding Answers In The Heart.


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