AA Thought for the Day
(courtesy AA-Alive.net)

August 20, 2017

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Fully Concede
We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves
that we were alcoholics.  This is the first step in recovery.
The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 30

Thought to Ponder
The Twelve Steps  --  a manuscript for rational living.

AA-related 'Alconym'
A B C  =  Acceptance, Belief, Change.
 

A Member Shares:

Hello all, Christine alkie, here.  Glad to be here alive and a chance at another sober day.  Glad you are here as well. The first thing I must accept is that I am alcoholic (not that I drank too much) but that I am alcoholic. That is the first and most important thing for me to accept.  Once I truly accept that then it can move me into the Steps and a better life.  I also had to accept that my life, while possibly not too bad, it is a far cry from what it could be if I stopped drinking and accepted my alcoholism and all it brought with it.  Alcoholism is more than just drinking, it was my thinking/actions.  When it comes to acceptance, after I came to accept my alcoholism then there was the prayer.  First I must have serenity as described in the Big Book, p. 67.  But did not we, ourselves, set the ball rolling?  When I started to understand that I am the one who in most cases set the ball rolling, acceptance came a little easier   I had to STOP pointing the finger at everyone and everything.  It was not anyone’s fault other than mine that I became alcoholic.  I might have been messed up but I am the one who took the first drink.  You can't be alkie without picking up the drink.  So I had to accept that my disease was no one’s fault.  The God stuff for me came in working the Steps and took me a long time to come to terms with God and spirituality.  I was like the bobble head--when someone told me to do something I did it.  I didn't have to accept it; I just needed to do it.  Oooooooooooooooo ya, that is acceptance--that someone knew better than I on what to do and how to think.  I am just old-school alkie.  I went to face-to-face meetings and still do.  I cannot hide in AA, though; that will kill me.  I must accept that I must learn to live life and that I needed help with that, and it came in the skin of a sponsor.  And sobering up buddies and meetings, which in time lead me to God who i can call on every day throughout the day.  But please give yourself time to get sober.  I wanted 5 years in 5 months, but I just have to accept I am exactly where I am supposed to be.  Thanks.

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