AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AA-Alive.net)
October 4, 2014
Emotional Sobriety
Those adolescent urges that so many of us have for top approval, perfect security, and perfect romance
-- urges quite appropriate to age seventeen --
prove to be an impossible way of life when we are at age forty-seven or fifty-seven.
Since AA began, I've taken immense wallops in all of these areas because of my failure to grow up emotionally and spiritually.
My God, how painful it is to keep demanding the impossible, and how very painful to discover, finally,
that all along we have had the cart before the horse!
Then comes the final agony of seeing how awfully wrong we have been,
but still finding ourselves unable to get off the emotional merry-go-round.
- The Language Of The Heart, pp. 236-237
Thought to Ponder . . .
Maturity is making peace between what is and what may be.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
S W A T = Surrender, Willingness, Action, Trust.
(courtesy AA-Alive.net)
October 4, 2014
Emotional Sobriety
Those adolescent urges that so many of us have for top approval, perfect security, and perfect romance
-- urges quite appropriate to age seventeen --
prove to be an impossible way of life when we are at age forty-seven or fifty-seven.
Since AA began, I've taken immense wallops in all of these areas because of my failure to grow up emotionally and spiritually.
My God, how painful it is to keep demanding the impossible, and how very painful to discover, finally,
that all along we have had the cart before the horse!
Then comes the final agony of seeing how awfully wrong we have been,
but still finding ourselves unable to get off the emotional merry-go-round.
- The Language Of The Heart, pp. 236-237
Thought to Ponder . . .
Maturity is making peace between what is and what may be.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
S W A T = Surrender, Willingness, Action, 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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