AA Thought for the Day

October 23, 2002

Surrender

We surrender to win. On the face of it,
surrendering certainly does not seem like winning.
But it is in AA.
Only after we have come to the end of our rope,
hit a stone wall in some aspect of our lives
beyond which we can go no further;
only when we hit 'bottom' in despair and surrender,
can we accomplish sobriety
which we could never accomplish before.
We must, and we do, surrender in order to win.

Reprinted from Alcoholics Anonymous, Second Edition, pp. 341-342, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

God finds us at the end of our rope.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

H O P E =
Honesty, Open-mindedness, Positive thinking, Eager to recover.


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