AA Thought for the Day...Sharing Welcomed

[CarolD]

AA Thought for the Day

February 6, 2007

Acceptance

It is always worthwhile to consider
how grossly that good word acceptance can be misused.
It can be warped to justify nearly every brand
of weakness, nonsense, and folly.
For instance, we can "accept" failure as a chronic condition . . .
We can "accept" worldly success pridefully . . .
We can also "accept" illness and death
as certain evidence of a hostile and godless universe.
With these twistings of acceptance,
we AA's have had vast experience.
Hence we constantly try to remind ourselves
that these perversions of acceptance are just gimmicks
for excuse-making:
a losing game at which we are, or at least have been,
the world's champions.
- Bill W., March 1962.


Reprinted from The Language of the Heart, Page 270, from the Grapevine. Reprinted with permission of The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.



Thought to Ponder....

My serenity is directly proportional
to my level of acceptance.




Recovery Related Acronym

A B C = Acceptance, Belief, Change.

[CarolD]

My serenity is directly proportional
to my level of acceptance.

Hmm...
between my broken dryer
and
my messed up PC
my last 2 days have really been trying.

Sometimes the mundane
can push you to the serenity Prayer! *grin*

[Tazman53]

Acceptance is crucial I feel, if the acceptance is not used as an excuse for something I have the ability to change if I ask for the courage to do so.

Acceptance of things I truly can not change I must have or I will be eat up inside over it. As said there in better words then mine, I must avoid using acceptance as an excuse.