AA Thought for the Day

May 30, 2007

An Infinite Debt

It is with the deepest feeling that I here cast up AA's debt to the clergy:
without their works for us, AA could never have been born;
nearly every principle that we use comes from them.
Their example, their faith, and their beliefs in some part,
we have appropriated and made our own.
Almost literally, we AA's owe them our lives, our fortunes,
and such salvation as each of us has found.
Surely, this is an infinite debt!
- Bill W., September 1957.

Reprinted from The Language of the Heart, Page 179, from the Grapevine. Reprinted with permission of The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

I have learned how a heart full of gratitude feels.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

H O P E = Heart Open; Please Enter.


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