AA Thoughts For The Day-Service

[CarolD]

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

"Service, gladly rendered, obligations squarely met,
troubles well accepted or solved with God's help,
the knowledge that at home or in the world outside
we are partners in a common effort,
the well-understood fact that in God's sight
all human beings are important,
the proof that love freely given surely brings a full return,
the certainty that we are no longer isolated and alone
in self-constructed prisons,
the surety that we need no longer be square pegs
in round holes
but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things --
these are the permanent and legitimate satisfactions
of right living
for which no amount of pomp and circumstance,
no heap of material possessions,
could possibly be substitutes."

c. 1952AAWS, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 124
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Thought to Consider . . .

Service is spirituality in action.

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H O P E = Helping Other People Every day