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

September 24, 2023
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Too Much Time
We find it a waste of time to keep chasing a man who
cannot or will not work with you. If you leave such a
person alone, he may soon become convinced that he
cannot recover by himself. To spend too much time on
any one situation is to deny some other alcoholic an
opportunity to live and be happy.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (Working With Others) p. 96

Thought to Ponder
If you want to drink, that's your business.
If you want to stop AA can help.

AA-related 'Alconym'
A L C O H O L I C S  =  A Life Consisting Of Helping Others Lived In Continuous Sobriety.

A Member Shares:
Good morning to all, I'm Firth. I'm an alcoholic. After a year or so of being sober with a sponsor and home group I went to see my doctor who had 12 stepped me. I asked if she would use my number on her 12 step list in future. She was all too willing and she did add it. Blow me down! After just a few days she called me and asked if I would like to visit one of her patients who she'd put on home detox. I agreed and went round to the house. This young man of about 35 was seeing scary monsters on the walls in his withdrawal. I went back next day. Turned out it was his father's house and he'd been more or less deported home from France where he was a civil engineer. I visited him for a few days till he quit shaking and he agreed to attend an AA meeting with me. When I went to pick him up he was drunk, but heck I was there now so I bundled him in my car. Took him to my home group and thought, this'll do it. But after the meeting my own sponsor pulled me to one side. He said, "What are you doing with a drunk who's not ready to quit yet?" I gulped! He went on, "There's more chance of him taking you back drinking, than of you stopping him. LET HIM GO!" It was a lesson I needed to hear. He just wasn't willing. I went back to see my doctor for a minor ailment some months later and I enquired what had happened to the young man I took to the meetings. She informed me he had died and was found on a riverbank back in France. That's what's waiting for most alcoholics who can't or won't do as we suggest. I know of no other way to help anyone with their drinking problem. There may be a wise sage somewhere who knows a way, but AA works when we are willing to give it a fair chance. If we don't, then history tells us there's only 2 ways out.

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