AA Thought for the Day

May 11, 2006

Prideful Balloons

To the intellectually self-sufficient man or woman,
many AA's can say,
"Yes, we were like you -- far too smart for our own good.
We loved to have people call us precocious.
We used our education to blow ourselves up into
prideful balloons, though we were careful
to hide this from others.
Secretly, we felt we could float above the rest of the folks
on our brain power alone. . .
But John Barleycorn had other ideas.
We who had won handsomely in a walk
turned into all-time losers.
We saw that we had to reconsider or die."

Reprinted from As Bill Sees It, Page 60, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

The ego seeks the destination;
the soul seeks the journey.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

N U T S = Not Using The Steps.


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