AA Thought for the Day - December 4, 2014

AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AA-Alive.net)

December 4, 2014

Hope
Hope is the priceless ingredient for recovery.  This, AA gives most frequently not in mere words.
Upon the alcoholic's first contact with AA, as he looks across the room
and sees men and women respectably clothed and in their right minds, enjoying themselves,
that flicker of hope begins to burn.
And he says to himself, "If those jokers can do it, I can."
The first need, beyond any other, is hope.  Without it, there is nothing.
- The Best of the Grapevine [Vol 1], pp. 156-157

Thought to Ponder . . .
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
H O P E = Heart Open; Please Enter.

Thanks to all of you for sharing so generously of your experience, strength and hope in carrying the AA message.
Blessings in sobriety to all,
In love and service,
joanna b
dailythought@aa-alive.org

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