AA Thought for the Day - May 21, 2015

AA Thought for the Day
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May 21, 2015

Prayer
My sponsor said, "Pray if you can." Having no faith whatever,
thinking that prayer must be some kind of autohypnotic play-acting, alone in my apartment
I got down on my knees like a little child and prayed to the unknown God.
I said, "God, take away my compulsion to drink."
And my compulsion to drink was removed, and it has not returned from that day to this.
Without knowing how I had done it, I had surrendered to the Power,
and the Power did for me what I could not do of my own will.
- Came To Believe . . ., p. 98

Thought to Ponder . . .
Trying to pray is praying.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
P U S H = Pray Until Something Happens.

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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