Daily
Reflections reading June 26th
A Gift That Grows With Time
For
most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship and colorful
imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous intimacy
with friends and a feeling that life is good. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 151
The
longer I chased these elusive feelings with alcohol, the more out of reach they
were. However, by applying this passage to my sobriety, I found that it
described the magnificent new life made available to me by the A.A. program. It
“truly does get better” one day at a time. The warmth, the love and the joy so
simply expressed in these words grow in breadth and depth each time I read it.
Sobriety is a gift that grows with time
©
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
My
thoughts on June 26th Reading
This reading comes from chapter 11 A VISION FOR YOU the hope
from all who came before us, gave to us, so we too could have recovery, from
the power of or disease of alcoholism
for most normal folks drinking is not a problem, but for me
in my last days of drinking I found no pleasure in any of my drinking or
actions, they were mere memories of what I gave up to my disease
I tried many times to capture the wonderful moments of my
past life, when alcohol did not consume me, I tried every means of controlling
my actions and drinking to no avail, it was useless to think I could drink in
safety anymore
alcohol had a firm grip on my life, I started to lose
everything, loneliness and despair became my lot, I found out about the fear,
hopelessness, bewilderment, frustration, I fooled myself into thinking I did
not miss alcohol
but deep down with –in I knew I wanted to drink and find
that lost pleasure I had in my past, I could not fathom life without my bottle
to comfort me, I knew I could not do this alone, I needed help to put down the
bottle
despair led me to trying to kill myself, until a cop told me
I did not want to die, I just did not know how to live without the bottle, he
told me about a treatment center where I could dry out, they told me about AA
I could fine the release from fear, boredom, and worry, they
said working the twelve steps, your life will mean something at last, they gave
me hope, they said you are going to meet new friends, some will become true
lifelong friends
bonded with wonderful ties to recovery, together we shall
beat the horrors of alcoholism together we share our common bond and we do
reach out to help others, our friends of the future, life is more than
attending meetings
I needed to cleaning up the wreckage of my torrid past,
thank God none are too discredited, or have sunk too low to be welcomed, to
being restored and united with hearts and minds attuned to the welfare of
others
yes I have grown up, so can you, though you be but one
person with the big book in your hand, it contains all you will need to begin a
new way of life, with out the need to ever have to drink again
remember you have just now tapped a source of power much
greater than yourself the power of the twelve steps to your own recover and
willingness to change is the beginning of this wonderful new way of life for us
all,
Realizing we know only a little, God will constantly
disclose more to us, Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each
day for the man who is still sick if your house is in order he will revile more
to you and me
God bless you Al M
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