AA Thought for the Day
April 1, 2006
Emotional Sobriety
Those adolescent urges that so many of us have
for top approval, perfect security, and perfect romance
-- urges quite appropriate to age seventeen --
prove to be an impossible way of life
when we are at age forty-seven or fifty-seven.
Since AA began, I've taken immense wallops in all these areas
because of my failure to grow up, emotionally
and spiritually.
My God, how painful it is to keep demanding the impossible,
and how very painful to discover, finally,
that all along we have had the cart before the horse!
- Bill W., January 1958.
Thought to Ponder....
Change is inevitable, growth is optional.
Recovery Related Acronym
A A = Altered Attitudes.
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