AA Thought for the Day

August 18, 2007

Paradox #1: Surrender

We SURRENDER TO WIN.
On the face of it, surrendering certainly does not seem like winning.
But it is in AA.
Only after we have come to the end of our rope,
hit a stone wall in some aspect of our lives beyond which we can go no further;
only when we hit "bottom" in despair and surrender,
can we accomplish sobriety, which we could never accomplish before.
We must, and we do, surrender in order to win.

Reprinted from Experience, Strength and Hope, pp. 155-156, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

We surrender to win; we give away to keep;
we suffer to get well; we die to live.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

K I S S = Keep It Simple; Surrender.


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