AA Thought for the Day

August 28, 2006

Acceptance

It is always worthwhile to consider
how grossly that good word acceptance can be misused.
It can be warped to justify nearly every brand
of weakness, nonsense and folly. . .
With these twistings of acceptance,
we AAs have had vast experience.
Hence we constantly try to remind ourselves
that these perversions of acceptance
are just gimmicks for excuse-making:
a losing game at which we are, or at least have been,
the world's champions.
Bill W., March 1962.

Reprinted from The Language of the Heart, Page 270, from the Grapevine. Reprinted with permission of The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

While it isn't always easy, if I keep it simple, it works.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

A B C = Acceptance, Belief, Change.


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