A GREAT PARADOX

  

Good Morning!!!

 

God grant me the Serenity

to accept the things

I cannot change;

Courage to change

the things I can;

and Wisdom

to know the difference.

Thy will, not mine, be done.

 

*~*~*~*~*^Daily Reflections^*~*~*~*~*

 

April 30, 2024

 

A GREAT PARADOX

 

These legacies of suffering and of recovery

are easily passed among alcoholics,

one to the other.

This is our gift from God,

and its bestowal upon others like us

is the one aim that today

animates A.A.’s all around the globe.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 151

 

The great paradox of A.A. is that I know

I cannot keep the precious gift of sobriety

unless I give it away.

My primary purpose is to stay sober.

In A.A. I have no other goal,

and the importance of this

is a matter of life or death for me.

If I veer from this purpose I lose.

But A.A. is not only for me;

it is for the alcoholic who still suffers.

The legions of recovering alcoholics stay sober

by sharing with fellow alcoholics.

The way to my recovery is to show others in A.A.

that when I share with them,

we both grow in the grace of the Higher Power,

and both of us are on the road to a happy destiny