AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AA-Alive.net)
July 14, 2013
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Rigorous Honesty
Who wishes to be rigorously honest and tolerant?
Who wants to confess his faults to another and make restitution for harm done?
Who cares anything about a Higher Power, let alone meditation and prayer? . . .
. . . No, the average alcoholic, self-centered in the extreme,
doesn't care for this prospect --
unless he has to do these things in order to stay alive himself.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 24
Thought to Ponder . . .
Half measures availed us nothing.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
H O W = Honesty, Open-mindedness, Willingness.
A Member Shares:
I'm Erin, an alcoholic. My whole life was full of half-hearted attempts to live. I believed that there was no life sober. Everyone in my world was a drunk and lived half-assed lives. Two weeks into my sobriety, I boarded a train for 17 hours to Beijing for my first meeting. I was terrified, but I did it. I walked back to my hostel where there were three small lakes frozen over. I walked out into the middle of one and fell apart. I knew from that meeting, if I was going to do this sober thing it had to be all the way. I cried, or sobbed rather, on my hands and knees in the middle of that frozen lake for more than an hour. I was so afraid of what rigorous honesty meant for me, but I was even more afraid of what would happen if I ever drank again. So I begged God to take all of the mess, even all the stuff I'd been hiding, and fix it. And life got a lot worse for me for a little while. I had to face the consequences of my actions, but I did it sober. Slowly, my life started to get better. I found peace, and I have learned that no matter what, I don't have to drink. Thanks for being here for me.
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