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10-19-2003, 08:13 AM
October 19, 2003
Daily Reflections
A. A.'S "MAIN TAPROOT"
The principle that we shall find no enduring strength until we
first admit complete defeat
is the main taproot from which our whole Society has sprung
and flowered.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 21-22
Defeated, and knowing it, I arrived at the doors of A.A.,
alone and afraid of the unknown.
A power outside of myself had picked me up off my bed, guided
me to the phone book,
then to the bus stop, and through the doors of Alcoholics
Anonymous. Once inside A.A. I
experienced a sense of being loved and accepted, something I
had not felt since early
childhood. May I never lose the sense of wonder I experienced
on that first evening with
A.A., the greatest event of my entire life.
Daily Reflections
A. A.'S "MAIN TAPROOT"
The principle that we shall find no enduring strength until we
first admit complete defeat
is the main taproot from which our whole Society has sprung
and flowered.
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp. 21-22
Defeated, and knowing it, I arrived at the doors of A.A.,
alone and afraid of the unknown.
A power outside of myself had picked me up off my bed, guided
me to the phone book,
then to the bus stop, and through the doors of Alcoholics
Anonymous. Once inside A.A. I
experienced a sense of being loved and accepted, something I
had not felt since early
childhood. May I never lose the sense of wonder I experienced
on that first evening with
A.A., the greatest event of my entire life.