OCTOBER 31, 2005



October 31, 2005

Daily Reflections

AVOIDING CONTROVERSY

All history affords us the spectacle of striving nations and groups
finally torn asunder
because they were designed for, or tempted into, controversy. Others
fell apart because
of sheer self-righteousness while trying to enforce upon the rest of
mankind some
millennium of their own specification.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 176

As an A.A. member and sponsor, I know I can cause real damage if I yield
to temptation
and give opinions and advice on another's medical, marital, or religious
problems. I am
not a doctor, counselor, or lawyer. I cannot tell anyone how he or she
should live;
however, I can share how I came through similar situations without
drinking, and how
A.A.'s Steps and Traditions help me in dealing with my life.

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