10-26-07 -- T.H.I.N.K.

Every Friday, we work the step corresponding to the month in Paths to Recovery.

Step Ten is: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

One member chose this reading today from the chapter on the 10th Step:

"Recently, I read a card for an Al-Anon friend. It presented an acronym for "Think."

T - Is it Thoughtful
H - Is it Honest?
I - Is it Intelligent?
N - Is it Necessary?
K - Is it Kind?

Before I came into the program, I heard the phrase "stinking thinking." Usually people made a joke about the phrase. It's used much more in AA than in Al-Anon. But like a lot of things that take awhile to sink in, now I understand the concept more.  Four years in the program has made me realize that what I think is often just what I think. It has nothing to do with reality.

Sometimes now I'll think -- and do nothing. Where as before, I followed my thoughts with actions because I thought I had to. I was run by my thoughts. 

          Something to think about.