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From: MSN NicknameEdnpride  in response to Message 254Sent: 12/11/2008 11:21 AM
 
  
The Eye Opener
Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008

Instincts

Our desires for emotional security and wealth, for personal prestige and power, for romance, and family satisfactions -- all these have to be tempered and redirected... If we place instincts first, we have got the cart before the horse; we shall be pulled backward into disillusionment. But when we are willing to place spiritual growth first -- then and only then do we have a real chance.

Reprinted from Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Page 114, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.

Thought to Ponder....

Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional,
growing spiritually is up to you.

Recovery Related Acronym

A A = Altered Attitudes.



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     re: The Eye Opener   MSN NicknameEdnpride  12/12/2008 11:10 AM