AA Thought for the Day - April 29, 2015

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

April 29, 2015

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A Promise
We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 84

Thought to Ponder . . .
Hold your face up to the Light, even though for the moment you do not see.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A A = Always Awesome.

A Member Shares:
I'm Charlie J., and I have Alcoholism.  I don't ever remember talking about this in AA.  All my life I have had some kind of strange, (only because I do not understand it) intuition.  It even worked while drinking to keep me out of real life-and-death situations.  But today, sober, I still have it.  I can't read anyone's mind nor can I predict the future; I just get a "feeling."  Now, add to that my sober experience and all that I have learned and it's a really great asset.  I have no idea about what a Higher Power is or is not, but this intuition tells me there is Something.  So I just believe that, that there is Something bigger than me.  At my first meeting back to AA out of the detox, I sensed that the people at that meeting had once been just like me but weren't any longer.  I wanted to know how they got that way.  I had been called my entire life by the nickname of 'Butch.'  The first meeting back to AA I introduced myself as 'Charlie' -- my real name.  I had no idea how I knew I was no longer 'Butch,' but I had this overwhelming feeling none the less.  And as I looked around the meeting room I had another strong feeling that these people were not in any way special.  They were just regular people but they seemed different.  Happy maybe, but whatever it was, I wanted it.  My dear AA buddy, Joe B., stood next to me after that meeting.  I'd never seen him before in my life, yet he talked to me.  Strangely enough, I listened.  He then took me by the hand, walked me around the room, introduced me to everyone that he knew with long-term recovery, and I didn't pull my hand away.  It felt like he pulled me out from under a heap of rubble and rescued me from an alcoholic death.  Thank you.
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