Removing the Ground Glass

The [fourth step] moral inventory is a cool examination of the damages that occurred to us in life and a sincere effort to look at them in a true perspective. This has the effect of taking the ground glass out of us, the emotional substance that still cuts and inhibits.
c. 1967 AAWS, As Bill Sees It, p. 140

Thought to Ponder . . .
Pain is what I walk through. Misery is what I sit in.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
H O P E = Having Optimistic Perspective Every day.

AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AAOnline.net)