Step by Step
Sunday, March 3, 2024
Today, understand that taking care of myself does not mean I can be selfish and place everyone and everything after me. If I am Hungry, Angry, Lonely or Tired — HALT — my Program suggests that I bolster myself so that I have something of myself to share as an effective 12th-Stepper. We as alcoholics are predictable only in unpredictability and extremities — all or nothing with no middle ground. Tending first to our physical, emotional and spiritual health is the middle ground between active alcoholism and recovery and being in service to others, and we have little to pass on if we have neglected ourselves. The eventual outcome, if not a relapse, will be an alcoholic who is little more than a dry drunk — or a dead drunk. Today, if I feel the physical, emotional and spiritual need to seek and meditate with my Higher Power, let me not feel guilty or selfish because, in the end, I have nothing to offer to others if I have nothing to offer myself. And our common journey continues. Step by step. — Chris M., 2024
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