AA Thought for the Day

January 5, 2005

Listen

If you really listen (not just hear) what is being said,
you may find the person talking
has quietly slipped inside your head
and seems to be describing the landscape there --
the shifting shapes of nameless fears,
the color and chill of impending doom --
if not the actual events and words stored in your brain.
And whether this happens or not,
you will surely have a good laugh or two
in the company of AA's,
and you'll probably pick up a couple of ideas on living sober.
If you want to use them, that is up to you.

Reprinted from Living Sober, Page 85, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

Learn to listen; listen to learn.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

T L C = Tears, Laughter, Caring.


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