Just for Today
Monday, July 16, 2012
“It would be hard to estimate how much AA has done for me. I really wanted the program, and I wanted to go along with it. I noticed that the others seemed to have such a release, a happiness, a something that I thought a person ought to have. I was trying to find the answer.” - Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, 1976, Part I (“Personal Stories”), (1), p 191.
Just for today, grant me the common sense to realize that the answer I seek to questions about recovery and life in general is no farther away than the text and Program of Alcoholics Anonymous. The excerpt reproduced here, in its proper context, is that the answer is the spiritual foundation on which recovery must be cemented, according to the Big Book. Paraphrasing the quote, “I was raised in religion but born of the spirit,” let me understand that I must surrender on blind faith if I still struggling with the Program’s concepts of Higher Power and spirituality. But if I still require some logical argument that a stronger Power for good exists, can I not say that something stronger but good exists if alcohol and its destructive power exists? Today, any answer I seek if here, and I am here in the now. I need look no farther. And our common journey continues. Just for today. - Chris M., 2012
Monday, July 16, 2012
“It would be hard to estimate how much AA has done for me. I really wanted the program, and I wanted to go along with it. I noticed that the others seemed to have such a release, a happiness, a something that I thought a person ought to have. I was trying to find the answer.” - Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, 1976, Part I (“Personal Stories”), (1), p 191.
Just for today, grant me the common sense to realize that the answer I seek to questions about recovery and life in general is no farther away than the text and Program of Alcoholics Anonymous. The excerpt reproduced here, in its proper context, is that the answer is the spiritual foundation on which recovery must be cemented, according to the Big Book. Paraphrasing the quote, “I was raised in religion but born of the spirit,” let me understand that I must surrender on blind faith if I still struggling with the Program’s concepts of Higher Power and spirituality. But if I still require some logical argument that a stronger Power for good exists, can I not say that something stronger but good exists if alcohol and its destructive power exists? Today, any answer I seek if here, and I am here in the now. I need look no farther. And our common journey continues. Just for today. - Chris M., 2012
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