AA Thought for the Day

January 31, 2003

Prideful Balloons

Scientific progress told us
there was nothing man couldn't do.
Knowledge was all-powerful.
Intellect could conquer nature.
Since we were brighter than most folks (so we thought),
the spoils of victory would be ours for the thinking.
The god of intellect displaced the God of our fathers.
But again John Barleycorn had other plans.
We who had won so handsomely in a walk
turned into all-time losers.
We saw that we had to reconsider or die.
- Bill W.

Reprinted from Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pp. 29-30, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

D U E S = Desperately Using Everything but Sobriety.


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