DAILY REFLECTIONS for May 29th

TRUE TOLERANCE

The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Page 139

I first heard the short form of the Third Tradition in the Preamble. When I came to A.A. I could not accept myself, my alcoholism, or a Higher power. If there had been any physical, mental, moral, or religious requirements for membership, I would be dead today. Bill W. said in his tape on the Traditions that the Third Tradition is a charter for individual freedom. The most impressive thing to me was the feeling of acceptance from members who were practicing the Third Tradition by tolerating and accepting me. I feel acceptance is love and love is God's will for us.

Daily Reflections reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.