AA Thought for the Day

December 14, 2006

Resentments

If you have a resentment you want to be free of,
if you will pray for the person or the thing that you resent,
you will be free.
If you will ask in prayer for everything you want for yourself
to be given to them, you will be free.
Ask for their health, their prosperity, their happiness,
and you will be free.
Even when you don't really want it for them
and your prayers are only words and you don't mean it,
go ahead and do it anyway.
Do it every day for two weeks, and you will find
you have come to mean it and want it for them,
and you will now feel compassionate understanding
and love.

Reprinted from Alcoholics Anonymous, Page 552, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

Trying to pray is praying.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

N O W = No Other Way.


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