Just for Today
Friday, Aug. 24, 2012
“At last, acceptance proved to be the key to my drinking problem. …When I stopped living in the problem and began living in the answer, the problem went away. From that moment on, I have not had a single compulsion to drink.” - Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, 1976, “They Stopped in Time,” Ch 17 (“Doctor, Alcoholic, Addict”), pp 448-49.
Just for today, after living so long in the problem of active alcoholism, let me understand and believe that now, as an alcoholic who does not drink, I am free to live in the answer. By living in the answer, I can be free of fighting the demon of drinking again, free of the fear of being caught and of shame, anger, resentment, loneliness and hopelessness. The problem offers no freedom; the answer does. Let me think and re-think until I understand the fine line between living in the problem and living in the answer and, in understanding, I can begin to loosen the problem’s grip on me and be embraced by the answer. And the answer is the Program - AA - and in the principles it impresses. Today, I no longer have to fight or live in - or with - the problem; I have an answer. And our common journey continues. Just for today. -Chris M., 2012
Friday, Aug. 24, 2012
Just for today, after living so long in the problem of active alcoholism, let me understand and believe that now, as an alcoholic who does not drink, I am free to live in the answer. By living in the answer, I can be free of fighting the demon of drinking again, free of the fear of being caught and of shame, anger, resentment, loneliness and hopelessness. The problem offers no freedom; the answer does. Let me think and re-think until I understand the fine line between living in the problem and living in the answer and, in understanding, I can begin to loosen the problem’s grip on me and be embraced by the answer. And the answer is the Program - AA - and in the principles it impresses. Today, I no longer have to fight or live in - or with - the problem; I have an answer. And our common journey continues. Just for today. -Chris M., 2012
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