Carrying the Message

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

December 20, 2013

Carrying the Message
What message?  Hope.  Example.  The way out.  The way back.
A handful of simple principles to unravel most our snarled-up problems.
A touch of humor -- not taking ourselves so damned seriously.
Meetings.  Availability.  Talk, talk, talk.  The willingness to listen with understanding
as the still-suffering alcoholic thrashes his way out of his mental mire.
Tolerance.  Guilelessness.  The honesty to face situations and people,
not go around them by the old, familiar route of sneakiness and subverted honesty.
"Carrying the message" is all these things.
- The Best of the Grapevine [Vol. 2], p. 179

Thought to Ponder . . .
In AA we carry the message ... not the mess.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
T L C = Tears, Laughter, Caring.

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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