AA Thought for the Day
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July 14, 2019

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Step Ten
Continue to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear.
When these crop up, we ask God at once to remove them. We discuss
them with someone immediately and make amends quickly if we have
harmed anyone. Then we resolutely turn our thoughts to someone we
can help. Love and tolerance of others is our code. 
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Into Action) p. 84 

Thought to Ponder
I can’t fix something if I don’t know what’s wrong. 

AA-related 'Alconym'
A A  =  Accountable Actions. 

A Member Shares:
Hello family. Mike, alkie from Texas. All these steps work together as one cohesive unit. They are like a living and breathing entity that offers me a way to God, but I have to practice all the principles together. If I leave one out it does not function as it is suppose too and step 10 is a step I learned the hard way. I worked my steps with my sponsor for the first time completely through in the order they are meant to be worked in. Somewhere along the way I stopped practicing a step 10. I noticed that I was getting angrier, resentful, fearful. I was living in old behaviors again a little bit at a time. Lying, cheating, and stealing. Nothing major in that area but it had started and once I start doing those things it is sort of like a ripple effect in my sobriety. So I finally got scared and could not figure out what was wrong. I did not feel right inside of me. My sponsor asked me a bunch of questions and before I knew it we had discovered the problem. I had not been setting right the wrongs I committed as I went along. I was under the impression if I have good intentions and screwed up that was okay. I am not sure how I came to that conclusion but I did. The step talks about continuing for a lifetime. It tells me that I am going to make some mistakes in my life since this thing is done for a lifetime. So I had to do another major 4th and 5th steps. It stunk but I felt a clean wind blow through me. I had to add people to my amends lists. But if I had been practicing step 10 than I would not have gotten to a place that I was harming others again. Living in old behaviors during this period of sobriety I may not have been drinking but I sure as hell was not sober. I was a dry miserable drunk. It was only by the grace of God that I was able to get my head screwed back on again and my butt back in gear living this program as it is intended.

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