AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AA-Alive.net)
October 12, 2016
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No Reservations
If we are planning to stop drinking, there must be no reservation of any kind,
nor any lurking notion that someday we will be immune to alcohol.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 33
Thought to Ponder . . .
If we want to quit drinking, we are going to have to quit drinking.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A A = Absolute Abstinence.
A Member Shares:
I am Mike, a very grateful alcoholic. NO RESERVATIONS! Here is something I have learned in AA: Just to the extent an alcoholic believes alcohol is a solution for any problem, it will be. On my second day sober I told an old-timer I couldn't drink. He smiled and said, "The hell you say! You can drink. You've been proving that. You can't drink safely and without consequences." I said, "I can't stop." Again, he smiled, "You can stop. You're not drinking now. Your biggest problem, Mike, is you can't stay stopped, not without the 12 Steps of AA and a Higher Power." You see, knowing I had a problem never solved the problem. I do believe the harder I tried to control or stop, the more I drank. What I needed was a solution to the problem. My Higher Power was alcohol. I needed a power greater than that alcohol, and it took effort on my part to come to know that Higher Power I now call God. And today I am truly grateful to be an alcoholic who has found recovery and a way of life that is so much better than I could have ever imagined. Thanks.
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Blessings in sobriety to all,
In love and service,
joanna b
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