We scarcely need be reminded that excessive guilt
or rebellion leads to spiritual poverty.
But it was a very long time before we knew
we could we could go even more broke on spiritual pride.
When we early AA's got our first glimmer
of how spiritually prideful we could be,
we coined this expression:
"Don't try to get too damned good by Thursday!". . .
This is our AA way of warning against pride-blindness,
and the imaginary perfections that we do not possess.
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails.
O D A A T = One Day At A Time.