AA Thought for the Day - January 2, 2015

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

January 2, 2015

Footprints of Hope
So I looked ahead, along the path marked by the footprints of hope, commitment, and action.
All around me were many happy, sober people who had walked that path.
Listening intently to their stories, I heard some more horrifying than mine, others, less so.
But it was plain that all these alcoholics had felt the same hopelessness, fear, pain, and anger I had experienced.
It was also obvious that people with drinking problems like mine could come out of them and - unbelievable at first - laugh at them!
. . . They knew that it was an illness, that it could deceive its victims, that the danger lay in the first drink.
- The Best of the Grapevine [Vol. 2], p. 136

Thought to Ponder . . .
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

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

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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