AA Thought for the Day - February 18, 2015

AA Thought for the Day
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February 18, 2015

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Change
Let us never fear needed change.  Certainly we have to discriminate between changes for worse and changes for better.
But once a need becomes apparent in an individual, in a group, or AA as a whole,
it has long since been found out that we cannot stand still and look the other way.
- As Bill Sees it, p. 115

Thought to Ponder . . .
If nothing changes, nothing changes.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
N O W = No Other Way.

A Member Shares:
I'm Peyton and I'm a grateful alcoholic.  All my life I wanted to change who I was.  I was never content with being me because I didn't like myself at all.  I was the kind of adult who got a lot of "change your life" type of self-help books, but the problem was, thinking about making those changes was as far as I ever went.  That didn't work for me at all.  I learned in AA that I can't think my way into sober living.  I can't think my way into changing from a self-centered, selfish person .. it just doesn't cut it at all.  True change takes action: getting off my butt, taking the solution given by this programme, and putting it into practice in my life.  I don't always make the right choices in actions, but as long as I'm working toward changing to be the person God wants me to be, it usually works out ok.  Yes, change can be scary, but what scares me more is the thought of going back to that pitiful creature I was before I made it to AA.  Thanks for showing me how it works, and that it does work if I work it.
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Blessings in sobriety to all,
In love and service,
joanna b
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