Daily Reflections reading October 1st
Lest We Become Complacent
It is easy to
let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are
headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS,
p. 85
When
I am in pain it is easy to stay close to the friends I have found in the
programs. Relief from that pain is provided in the solutions contained in
A.A.’s Twelve Steps. But when I am feeling good and things are going well, I
can become complacent. To put it simply, I become lazy and turn into the
problem instead of the solution. I need to get into action, to take stock:
where am I and where am I going? A daily inventory will tell me what I must
change to regain spiritual balance. Admitting what I find within myself, to God
and to another human being, keeps me honest and humble.
©
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
My thoughts on October 1st Reading
Boredom in recovery to me is nothing more that being
complacent in my recovery, sure there was a time in my recovery that I saw
nothing left to go to meetings for, my life was going good I had some years of
sobriety, I was getting bored with going to meetings
Hearing the same thing over and over, watching the same people coming in and going out like ping pong balls, wow I sure did complained a lot about everything and everyone, how they were just staying in their disease, never changing anything to help themselves
So I started to cut back on many of my meetings, you know got busy with life, ad less time to go to meetings every week, well I did soon stop going all together, attitude and character defects started to return to how I was before I stopped drinking
To me there is nothing worst than a know it all dry drunk, maybe at this point in my recovery it was a blessing to the others who were struggling, not to have this know-it all in their face, telling them how to live their lives, after all I sure was not doing that great myself, they did learn not to be like me
Old attitudes just creep back into my life, if am not attending meetings and given the program back, leaving out my own opinions as to how others should work this program, I had all I could do to take care of myself and my self centered ways I was a raving manic again
That’s when I return to my meetings, I became more active in service work, I was reaching out to help others who were having the same hard time I did, this sure made a difference, I started to do the very things I was taught when first arriving at the doors of recovery
I went to many meetings, I got active in my own recovery, used my sponsor to guide me in the right direction, went on many speaker commitments, became a general Service representative, was a District Committee Member
I served on many committees in my district took meetings in to prisons, hospitals and treatment centers, I once again remembered what I was taught in the beginning of my own sobriety I can not keep my experiences I have to give it back or lose it myself
Complacency has no place in my life today I am to busy trying to do what God intended me to do when He gave me this gift of sobriety He told me then I need to give it back if I want to keep it today I am listening to God and I try to give back the love and hope that I received when got here
Gods grace was freely given to me thru the people who were in the halls when I got here I now understand its my turn to give back the things I had so freely taken from others before me God sure does works thru people in my life today and I hope for you He works
God bless you
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