AA Thought for the Day - March 11, 2015

AA Thought for the Day
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March 11, 2015

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Letting Go
If I let go, I thought, then I wouldn't be anybody.  Well, who was I, anyway?  Just a willful, alcoholic woman.
Now I'm beginning to see that letting go doesn't mean giving up.  It means opening myself to new vistas.
There have been moments of what I would call ecstasy.  I'm thrilled and I'm scared at the same time.
- Came To Believe . . ., p. 41

Thought to Ponder . . .
Get a grip on letting go.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
L E T  G O = Leave Everything To God, Okay?

A Member Shares:
I'm Peyton and I'm a grateful alcoholic.  Believing in God has never been difficult for me.  Believing He could do things that were miraculous also wasn't difficult to believe, or to see in other people.  I just somehow had missed how truly relying on God, as I understood Him, would work in my life was all about.  Maybe I wasn't ready to see it; it really doesn't matter now.  In AA, I've learned, and continue to learn, that when I give my life to God, and try to do His will rather than my own, life works out a lot better for me.  I see it in you all who are living this programme and practicing it in all your affairs.  And I experience it, feel it, see it, and believe it, when I let go and have faith that God will work out all to my best whether I understand it or not.  Thanks for showing me how it works, and that it does work if I work it.
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