Aug. 11, 2012 - Just for Today

Just for Today
Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012

Just for today, while I did not choose to be alcoholic, I have a choice to be a non-drinking one. Admitting in Step One that I am powerless over alcohol does not mean I am doomed to an alcoholic death from accident, illness or a lengthy prison sentence for a drunk-related felony. In my gift from God of CHOICE, I have the power to overcome alcohol by disempowering it and choosing abstinence and 12-Step recovery. And while the 12 Steps impress that I and I alone am responsible for my alcoholism, I and I alone also am responsible for my own recovery; its success or failure rest with no one and nothing else but me. Ironically, while the Program also impresses the powerlessness I have over an array of things from alcohol to character defects, I am in control of not fueling that powerlessness by choosing not to be defeated by it - through the 12 Steps. Today, I can assert my power over powerlessness, and my power is in the 12 Steps. And our common journey continues. Just for today. - Chris M., 2012