AA Thought for the Day

October 24, 2005

Miracle

Then the miracle happened -- to me!
It isn't always so sudden with everyone,
But I ran into a personal crisis
that 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!

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


Thought to Ponder....

It takes a realist to believe in miracles.


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Coffee Pot

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