AA Thought for the Day

August 18, 2003

People Power

I am addressing this to alcoholics
who have had trouble with the religious overtones
in the AA program.
To those who do not accept the idea of a supernatural being,
let me assert that it is always people
who have strengthened me when I needed help.
I admit that I need more strength than I alone possess
to overcome the compulsion to drink.
I receive this strength from the power for good generated in AA.
I have interpreted the frequent mention of "God"
in the Twelve Steps and elsewhere
as power that comes from other people.

Reprinted from the pamphletDo You Think You're Different?, Page 15, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

Nobody knows how it works, but it DOES.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

N E W = Nothing Else Worked.


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