Just for Today
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
" ...(T)here is a substitute ...It is a fellowship in Alcoholics Anonymous. There you will find release from care, boredom and worry, Your imagination will be fired. Life will mean something at last. The most satisfactory years of your existence lie ahead." - Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, 1976, Ch 11 ("A vision for You"), p 152.
Just for today, if I have not already, let me take the first step toward a life that finally means something other than how bad the next hangover will be and, as promised in the Program, a belief and faith that the "most satisfactory years of (my) existence" do, indeed, lay ahead. And if I have taken the first step toward the promise of the Program, let me not squander it on some folly like self-pity or a thought that "just one, this one time" won't hurt me. Whether I have or have not already emarked on my own private journey of recovery, let me believe that sobriety and recovery can provide a life that is better, one that is more satisfactory than the one I have in drinking. Today, let me believe that I am worthy to work toward something better. And our common journey continues. Just for today. - Chris M., 2012
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
" ...(T)here is a substitute ...It is a fellowship in Alcoholics Anonymous. There you will find release from care, boredom and worry, Your imagination will be fired. Life will mean something at last. The most satisfactory years of your existence lie ahead." - Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, 1976, Ch 11 ("A vision for You"), p 152.
Just for today, if I have not already, let me take the first step toward a life that finally means something other than how bad the next hangover will be and, as promised in the Program, a belief and faith that the "most satisfactory years of (my) existence" do, indeed, lay ahead. And if I have taken the first step toward the promise of the Program, let me not squander it on some folly like self-pity or a thought that "just one, this one time" won't hurt me. Whether I have or have not already emarked on my own private journey of recovery, let me believe that sobriety and recovery can provide a life that is better, one that is more satisfactory than the one I have in drinking. Today, let me believe that I am worthy to work toward something better. And our common journey continues. Just for today. - Chris M., 2012
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