AA Thought for the Day - May 23, 2015

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

May 23, 2015

Pride
As for those bad habits I once listed as defects, I am trying to arrest them one day at a time, as I do my alcoholism.
A little progress has been made on pride.
I can now admit that most of my problems stem from one glaring defect: self-centeredness.
For how can I wallow in self-pity, weep over resentments, be sick with righteous anger, ache with envy,
tense up with fears and anxieties unless all my thoughts are exclusively on poor me?
- The Best of the Grapevine [Vol. 2], p. 158

Thought to Ponder . . .
If I self-forget I find.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
P R I D E = Personal Recovery Involves Deflating Ego.

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Blessings in sobriety to all,
In love and service,
joanna b
dailythought@aa-alive.org

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