AA Thought for the Day

August 13, 2007

Escape

Men and women who use alcohol as an escape
are not the only ones who are afraid of life,
hostile to the world, fleeing from it into loneliness.
Millions who are not alcoholics are living today in illusory worlds,
nurturing the basic anxieties and insecurities of human existence
rather than face themselves with courage and humility.
To these people, AA can offer as a cure no magic potion,
no chemical formula, no powerful drug.
But it can demonstrate to them how to use the tools of humility,
honesty, devotion, and love,
which indeed are the heart of the Twelve Steps of our recovery.

Reprinted from Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, Page 279, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light;
take off all your envy, jealousy,
un-forgiveness, selfishness, and fear.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

A A = Adventurers Anonymous.


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