AA Thought for the Day - January 26, 2015

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

January 26, 2015

Loneliness
When we first listen to recovered alcoholics in AA talking freely and honestly about themselves, we are stunned.
Their tales of their own drinking escapades, of their own secret fears and loneliness, jar us like a thunderbolt.
We discover -- but can hardly dare to believe right at first -- that we are not alone.
We are not totally unlike everybody, after all. . .
We sense, almost before we can articulate it, that we do belong somewhere, and the loneliness starts rapidly leaking away.
- Living Sober, p. 34

Thought to Ponder . . .
The sense of belonging is tremendously exciting.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
Y A N A = You Are Not Alone.

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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