AA Thought for the Day

March 28 2005

Pail of Water

You can't make a horse drink water
if he still prefers beer or is too crazy to know
what he does want.
Set a pail of water beside him,
tell him how good it is and why, and leave him alone.
If people really want to get drunk,
there is, so far as I know, no way of stopping this --
so leave them alone and let them get drunk.
But don't exclude them from the water pail, either.

Reprinted from As Bill Sees It, Page 14, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

In AA we carry the message; not the mess.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

H E L P = Hope, Encouragement, Love, Patience


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