AA Thought for the Day

November 9, 2007

Spirituality

Spirituality is an awakening --
or is it all the loose ends woven together into a mellow fabric? . . .
It's patience in the face of stupidity.
It's feeling that you want to knock somebody's head off --
and walking away instead. . .
It's wearing dungarees that feel like a tuxedo.
It's wanting to go home, yet being there. . .
It's the awareness that survival is a savage fight between you and yourself.
It's a magnetic pull toward those who are down and out.
It's knowing that even the bad times are good. . .
The singular thing that is spirituality cannot be given to a fellowman
by word of mouth.
If every man is to have it, then every man must earn it,
in his own way, by his own hand, stamped by the seal of himself,
in his own individual right.

Reprinted from Came to Believe, pp. 5-6, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

Spirituality is the essence of being. It can shape reality.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

K I S S = Keeping It Simple, Spiritually.


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