AA Thought for the Day

April 8, 2004

Learn to Live

I spent most of my life worrying about myself,
thinking that I was unwanted, that I was unloved.
I've learned since being in AA
that the more I worry about me loving you,
and the less I worry about you loving me,
the happier I'll be.
I discovered a fellowship of human beings
that I'd never seen before. . .
I learned how to be a friend.
I learned how to go out and help other people --
there was nowhere else I could have done that.
I have learned that the more I give, the more I will have;
the more I will have;
the more I learn to give, the more I learn to live.

Reprinted from Experience, Strength and Hope, Page 218, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

In the depth of winter I finally learned
that there was in me an invincible summer.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

T I M E = This Is My Education.


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