AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AA-Alive.net)
April 27, 2014
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Convinced
Practicing AA's Steps means the adoption of attitudes and actions
that almost no alcoholic who is still drinking can dream of taking.
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.
- As Bill Sees It, p.118
Thought to Ponder . . .
I would rather go through life sober, believing I am an alcoholic,
than go through life drunk, trying to convince myself that I am not.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A A = Always Aware.
A Member Shares:
Hi Family, I'm Deb, and I am an alcoholic. For a long time, I went back and forth with "do I have a problem?" At times, I did think so, but like the good alkie I was, I could convince myself I didn't. So many, many, things combined brought me to my knees. All those blackouts, not remembering what I said/did the night before. Embarrassing when my son would say, "we talked about that last night, don't you remember?" There was a pistol which I regularly brought out in hopeless drunken depression. Finally, one morning I hid the clip from myself, knowing that in a blackout I just might pull the trigger, but also knowing I would not be able to find the clip. Heck, I could not even find the bottles around the house I'd hidden. And then there was the separation from my then husband. And so, I came to AA still not sure just how bad I was. What clinched it was all of you sharing your experience, strength and hope. You understood my crazy head -- my wanting to stop but not being able to. You told me of all the "yets" to come. And what keeps clinching it, besides knowing the disease that I will never be cured of and that I wont get drunk if I don't take that first drink, etc., is those in our rooms, who go out and scout for us and then come back with a butt full of arrows and let us know it didn't get magically better -- it was worse. The program of AA has shined a light in me. I know that whatever comes my way, I have tools, Steps, fellowship, and my Higher Power to see me through. I am ever grateful for AA and for the heartfelt shares so I could and can relate. By the Grace of God, the program of AA and the goodness of the fellowship, I am sober today. Thank you.
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Thanks to all of you for sharing so generously of your experience, strength and hope in carrying the AA message.
Blessings in sobriety to all,
In love and service,
joanna b
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