Good morning. My thought for today is Think Think Think. If ever I think that a drink will solve whatever problem it is that I have or that I think I have, I need to think about the actual craving for the drink and why do I suddenly feel the need, I need to think about the consequences of taking the drink, play the tape through to the end, and I need to think about what I can do instead. I can call someone. I can go to a meeting. I can read some piece of AA literature. I can pray for strength to not do it. In other words, I need to do a lot of thinking about it. I need to think about those who have carried the message to me and how it will affect them, I need to think about those to whom I will one day carry the message to and I also need to think about what the drink will do to me.
In another context, a member once shared that she was taught about the reading of the last paragraph of the Preface in the Big Book: "If you have a drinking problem, we hope that you may pause in reading one of the forty two personal stories and think: "Yes, that happened to me" or, more important, "Yes, I've felt like that" or, most important, "Yes, I believe this program can work for me too." Think think think.
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