AA Thought for the Day

By going to meetings
and rubbing elbows with the new people in AA,
I find they have much to teach me.
Their problems are a little different,
and they haven't experienced the awful isolation
that many of us older folks did.
But they are better informed; they are more knowledgeable;
and I suspect they are smarter,
because they learn faster.
Perhaps they don't have as far to go to get well
as we did, but their path is more cluttered,
and the way isn't as clear.
So it is still the same struggle for all of us,
and we need each other.

Thought to Ponder....

Newcomers are the lifeblood of the program;
but our oldtimers are the arteries.

Recovery Related Acronym

N E W = Nothing Else Worked.