AA Thought for the Day

August 19, 2006

Regeneration

Such is the paradox of AA regeneration:
strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness,
the loss of one's old life as a condition
for finding a new one.
But we of AA do not have to understand this paradox;
we have only to be grateful for it.
- Bill W.

Reprinted from Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, Page 46, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

Paradox: We surrender to win;
we give away to keep; we suffer to get well;
we die to live.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

H O W = Honesty, Open-mindedness, Willingness.


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