AA Thought for the Day - October 3, 2014

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

October 3, 2014

Circus Act
I realized I'd been living outside myself for so long I'd almost become a walking vacancy.
In my prized AA sobriety, I was still running a kind of circus
which had numerous, highly believable posters plastered all over its outside --
See the Spectacular Non-Drinking Person!  Watch How Movingly He can Recite the Twelve Steps!
-- but which had nothing much going on inside the tent.
I've been working hard to shut that circus down ever since with varying degrees of success.
- The Best of the Grapevine [Vol. 3], pp. 237-238

Thought to Ponder . . .
The monkey’s asleep but the circus hasn’t left town.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
H A L T = Honesty, Acceptance, Love, Trust.

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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