AA Thought for the Day

June 6, 2004

Defects

Sometimes I've failed to share my defects
with the right people; at other times,
I've confessed their defects, rather than my own;
and at still other times, my confession of defects
has been more in the nature of loud complaints
about my circumstances and my problems.
Nevertheless, I think I've usually been able to make
a fairly thorough and searching job
of finding and admitting my personal defects. . .
Long ago I was lucky enough to see
that I'd have to keep up my self-analysis
or blow my top completely.
- Bill W., June 1958.

Reprinted from The Language of the Heart, Page 239, from the Grapevine. Reprinted with permission of The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

Wisdom is knowing what to do, virtue is doing it.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

H O W = Honest, Open, Willing.


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