AA Thought for the Day
August 19, 2003
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Blessings
One exercise that I practice
is to try for a full inventory of my blessings
and then for a right acceptance
of the many gifts that are mine --
both temporal and spiritual.
Here I try to achieve a state of joyful gratitude.
When such a brand of gratitude
is repeatedly affirmed and pondered,
it can finally displace the natural tendency
to congratulate myself on whatever progress
I may have been enabled to make in some areas of living.
- Bill W., March 1962.
Thought to Ponder....
Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?
Recovery Related Acronym
P A C E = Positive Attitudes Change Everything.
A Member Shares...
I'm Dave, I am an alcoholic.
My greatest blessing today is the forty-seven other alcoholics here tonight. Each and every one of you is a blessing to me. Even the ones I argue with and disagree with are still blessings to me. Even the ones who take my inventory, and gossip about me, are still blessings to me. The ones who are farther along the path, who still continue to lead and guide me are blessings to me, and those that are new and farther behind me forcing me to show that AA works, in spite of myself sometimes, are a blessing. I would not be sober today if it weren't for the other forty-seven alcoholics here tonight. Each and every one of you is a blessing to me, and I thank God that He has chosen to bring you here tonight to help me stay sober, and show that God still runs the show, and that AA works.
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