AA Thought for the Day
September 21, 2006
Dependency
Emotional and instinctual satisfactions, I saw,
were really the extra dividends of having love,
offering love, and expressing a love
appropriate to each relation of life.
Plainly, I could not avail myself of God's love
until I was able to offer it back to him
by loving others as he would have me.
And I couldn't possibly do that
so long as I was victimized by false dependencies.
For my dependency meant demand --
a demand for the possession and control of the people
and the conditions surrounding me.
- Bill W., January 1958.
Thought to Ponder....
A victim is a spectator in his life.
Recovery Related Acronym
H O P E = Honesty, Open-mindedness, Patience, Effort.
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