Daily
Reflections reading March 22nd
No More Struggle…
And
we have ceased fighting anything or anyone- even alcohol. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS,
p.84
When
AA found me I thought I was in for a struggle, and that AA might provide me the
strength I needed to beat alcohol. Victorious in that fight, who knows what
other battles I could win. I would need to be strong, though. All my previous
experience with life proved that. Today I do not have to struggle or exert my
will. If I take those Twelve Steps and let my Higher Power do the real work, my
alcohol problem disappears all by itself. My living problems also cease to be
struggles. I just have to ask whether acceptance-or change-is required. It is
not my will, but his, that needs doing
©
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
My thoughts on March 22nd Reading
Telling our stories what we used to be like, what happened,
and what we are like now that’s where the what if's, and all the blame came in,
what it was like before AA, I said I never hurt anyone in my drinking, but my
family, friends, and creditors sure did suffer
I was a very selfish, self centered jerk, who thought he was
God, in charge of the universe I sure know how to blame everyone else for my
mistakes, I used them for my excuses to be the way I was, best one I ever
blamed was my father, who I have never met in my life
By blaming them and uses them for excuses, I never had to
take a look at myself before but I decided I wanted what AA had and I was
willing to go to any length to get it, carrying the message is the basics of
recovery, but I needed to know it before I could give it
No more struggles with acceptance in recovery, this was
detachment from the problems of my life I needed to do, faced with drastic life
style changes anyone can be overwhelmed, recovery is a process to a decision
making it possible to accept living in a completely different life style
Living one day at a time gave me the opportunity to make
changes in just twelve steps, I like most others have been the victim of many
unjust conditions in early childhood I had not known or experienced the real
meaning of love as normal people do
Today what I do to carry the message is very simple, because
I stick to the basics of AA, my disease of alcoholism is not cured and never
will be, if I stray to far for the teachings of AA I know I will start blaming
everyone and every thing for my short comings again
I will be lost again to suffer the misery of my past and
will most likely get drunk again, God asked me to give up one thing alcohol and
he took my desire to drink away I needed to get humble and honest I was not
constitutionally incapable of being honest with myself
But needed to become humble enough to ask God to remove the
desire to drink from me, AA gave me a new life and the tools to use the big
book, step book, slogans etc
The very basics of AA is to learn the steps and to reach out
to others who suffer from our disease just by sharing my ESH and being at the
meetings day after day was enough to keep me sober I stick to the basics of the
fellowship and I must do my part to make it possible for others to recover
Change is an absolute, we need to be sure that everyone has
the same chance to learn how to have a useful and peaceful life, with Gods
help, the help of the fellowship we all can give them this chance to live, helping
them thru the 12 steps to a new way of life
Show them as I was shown we have No more struggle with
alcohol when we work the steps into our lives accepting that a power greater
then ourselves has returned us to sanity God works thru people stay with the
basics and AA will carry on for us all
God bless you Al M
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