AA Thought for the Day - June 11, 2015

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

June 11, 2015

Freedom
I ran into a personal crisis which filled me with a raging and righteous anger.
And as I fumed helplessly and planned to get good and drunk and show them,
my eye caught a sentence in the book lying open on my bed: "We cannot live with anger."
The walls crumpled -- and the light streamed in.  I wasn't trapped.  I wasn't helpless.
I was free, and I didn't have to drink to "show them."
This wasn't "religion" -- this was freedom!
Freedom from anger and fear, freedom to know happiness and love.
- Alcoholics Anonymous [3rd Edition], p. 228

Thought to Ponder . . .
If we were to live, we had to be free of anger.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
H J F = Happy, Joyous, Free.

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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