AA Thoughts For The Day

[CarolD]

~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~


Surrender

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.


c. 1955 AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous,
2nd Edition, pp. 341-2

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Thought to Consider . . .

Life didn't end when I got sober -- it started.

*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*

S W A T = Surrender, Willingness, Acceptance, Trust

[CarolD]

When I joined my home group ...over 10 years ago....
The Paradoxes were being read in the opening Format.

....I had never heard of them.

When I asked "Where are they?" No one knew.
They used them because they heard them in another group.

Sooo...I got on line...did a search and found the sorce.
Ah Ha! 2nd Edition of Alcoholics Anonymous

I did add them here...on a sticky...AA Power Posts.

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...ower-post.html (AA Power Post)

Thanks to....
Early Times AA-Rockmart, Ga.
Paulding Co. AA-Dallas, Ga.

Does your AA group read The Paradoes?