AA Thought for the Day

May 13, 2008

Apples

The speaker said, "If you're an apple, you can be the best apple you can be,
but you can never be an orange."
I was an apple, all right, and, for the first time
I understood that I had spent my life trying to be an orange.
I looked around at a room filled with apples and,
if I was understanding the speaker,
most of them were no longer trying to be oranges.

Reprinted from Alcoholics Anonymous, Page 427, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

T L C = Tears, Laughter, Caring.


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