![]() We go to meetings to learn how to be better people. Spirituality is … the awareness that survival is a savage fight between you and yourself.Īs recovering people, we’re getting stronger each day. Having accepted my alcoholism, I’ll devote my attention to the things that enhance sobriety. Today I will not waste time comparing myself with others. It’s best to leave it this way: “If your drinking is a problem in your life, AA has an answer for you. Since then, we’ve done very well be letting members “Diagnose” themselves. ![]() These also make good discussion topics for meetings.Īt the very beginning of AA, the founders had trouble coming up with a real definition of alcoholism. Other common factors that bind alcoholics together are emotional immaturity, a misplaced faith that alcohol solves problems, loneliness, and a tendency toward resentments. Thought drinking patterns and habits may vary between two people, individuals may at least share the fears and delusions that drinking brought. The better course is to identify with the problems others have in common with us. This mistaken conclusion has been the undoing of some alcoholics. If we use behavior and drinking as yardsticks, such comparisons can lead us to believe that we might not really be alcoholics. There’s always danger in comparing ourselves with others. After we making our review, we ask God’s forgiveness and inquire what corrective measures should be taken. We must be careful not to drift into worry, remorse, or morbid reflection, for that would diminish our usefulness to ourselves and to others. Were we resentful, selfish, dishonest, or afraid? Do we owe an apology? Have we kept something to ourselves which should be discussed with another person at once? Were we kind and loving toward all? What could we have done better? Were we thinking of ourselves most of the time? Or were we thinking of what we could do for others, of what we could pack into the stream of life? When we retire at night, we constructively review our day. I pray that I may let God be the judge of the real me. I pray that I may not be upset by the judgment of others. Accept criticism as well as you accept praise. Do not talk back or defend yourself too much against accusation, whether false or true. Do not let yourself slip back into the old ways of reacting. Feel a deep, inner security in the goodness and purpose in the universe. ![]() Do not get emotionally upset by anything that happens around you. Have I gotten over loving nobody but my self?īe calm, be true, and be quiet. My few friends were only drinking companions, not real friends. I paid too little attention to our children and didn’t try to understand them or show them affection. Many a time I would go out all by myself to have a good time. After I got married, I was very unappreciative of my spouse. ![]() From the time I went away to school, I paid very little attention to my mother and father, I was on my own and didn’t even bother to keep in touch with them. I learn to combine initiative with humility, responsibility with thankfulness, and thus relish the joys of living my twenty-four hour program. Experiences such as these help me to stay on the proper path of recovery. was originally urged to remember, I think that in our group discussions we should never settle for the “good,” but always strive to attain the “best.” These common strivings are yet another example of a loving God, as we understand Him, expressing Himself through the group conscience. the essence of our Second Tradition: “Our leaders are but trusted servants they do not govern.” These words, often spoken by co-founder Bill W., were appropriately said to him as the result of the group’s conscience. I think these words apply to every area of A.A.’s Three Legacies: Recovery, Unity and Service! I want them etched in my mind and life as I “trudge the Road of Happy Destiny” (Alcoholics Anonymous, p. ” … sometimes the good is the enemy of the best.”
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