AA Thought for the Day

December 26, 2004

Miracle

Then the miracle happened -- to me!
It isn't always so sudden with everyone,
but I ran into a personal crisis which filled me with a raging
and righteous anger.
As I fumed helplessly and planned to get good and drunk
and show them, my eye caught a sentence
in the book lying open on my bed;
"We cannot live with anger."
The walls crumpled -- and the light streamed in.
I wasn't trapped. I wasn't helpless.
I was free, and I didn't have to drink to "show them."
This wasn't "religion" -- this was freedom!
Freedom from anger and fear,
freedom to know happiness and love.

Reprinted from Alcoholics Anonymous, Page 206, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

Don't give up before the miracle happens.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

T H I N K = The Happiness I Never Knew.


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