Whatever we do, one thing is sure- if we turn to our program, we’ll see how beautiful the world is. Maybe we need ask to give the Step at our meeting. Maybe we need to help someone by working Step Twelve. At these times, we need to turn to our program.
But sometimes, we may still see the world as ugly. The way we become loving family members is beautiful. The worst part of addiction is how it doesn’t let us see beauty in the world.
Maybe we saw people’s defects instead of their beauty. In our addiction, we often went after what was ugly in life. I’ll know that my best way of doing it is to pass on good ideas to others. I’ll discover ways to express my gratitude today. And never, under any circumstances, should we put others under obligation to us. Even telling people how hard we’ve worked for the 12 Step program can detract from our gratitude. It’s also a good idea to dismiss thoughts and statements that are forms of prideful boasting. This is more effective when we share ideas and experiences that have helped us on the way to self-improvement. The best way to express gratitude, however, is to “pass on” the good that has come to us. How can we express gratitude when we feel it? We can begin by simply using the proper forms of courtesy at all times this reminds us that we can’t live without other people. All of us, whatever our race, creed, or color, are the children of a living Creator, with whom we may form a relationship upon simple and understandable terms as soon as we are willing and honest enough to try. We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired. He used to be one of Al Capone’s mob.” That’s how universal A.A. I said, “Who’s that?”Īnd somebody answered, “Oh, he’s been around for a long time. It was winter, and there was a mild-looking little gent taking the coats. Not too long ago, I sat talking in my office with a member who bears the title of Countess. I pray that I may go quietly along the path I have chosen.Īll kinds of people have found their way into A.A. I pray that I may not let myself become too upset. I must not weaken my spiritual power by letting personal piques upset me. The attitude of quiet faith will receive its reward as surely as acting upon God’s direct guidance. When I have no clear guidance from God, I must go forward quietly along the path of duty. I must never let personal piques interfere with living the way I know God wants me to live. When I let personal piques and resentments interfere with what I know to be my proper conduct, I am on the wrong track and I am undoing all I have built up by doing the right thing. Have I got control over my unstable emotions? We try to drown our feelings in order to escape life’s realities, little realizing or caring that in continued drinking we are only multiplying our problems. But alcohol does not feed, alcohol does not build, it only borrows from the future and it ultimately destroys. We try through drink to push away from the realities of life.
We suffer from mental conflicts from which we look for escape by drowning our problems in drink.
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The obsession to drink was removed and–one day at a time–my life went on, and I learned how to live sober. I found what worked for me and then asked that Power to restore me to sanity. I was told to find God, as I understand Him, that there was no doctrine of the Godhead in A.A. I found out there are many Higher Powers. All of a sudden I was thinking about God! I was told to get a Higher Power and I had no idea what one looked like. I decided to stick around long enough to find out from the ones who went before me. A., I was run down by the bottle and wanted to lose the obsession to drink, but I didn’t really know how to do that. We are only operating a spiritual kindergarten in which people are enabled to get over drinking and find the grace to go on living to better effect.
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