Daily Reprieve
My wife and I are both in AA and both happy sober
recovering Alkies
I was asked some time ago do we need Al-Anon to stay
sober together
Well we don't think we need two programs to keep us
close to one God
Seems that AA and Al-Anon teach the same principles
and same 12 steps
I am not cured of alcoholism what I have is a daily
reprieve from a disease
Of mind body and soul if I maintain my spiritual
conditioning keeping my spiritual principles
I have a choice today to take my own inventory and
leave others to take their own
As active alcoholics I lost my ability to choose
whether I would drink or not
Only because I had a compulsion that I could not
fight out there alone in my disease
I was compelled to go on with my own destruction
because I was alone in the disease
Thanks to God I did make a choice that brought about
my recovering from the disease
Step one I came to believe that alone I was powerless
over alcohol and had no life to manage
I also came to believe that a Higher Power could
restore me to some form of sanity in my life
But only when I became willing to practice all of
A.A.'s Twelve Steps to a new freedom
I sure did have to become willing to make all the changes
in my life to stay sober
I know the futility of trying to break the drinking
obsession by my own will power alone
Honesty open-mindedness and willingness to accept the
steps as a way of life
Was the only way I could restore me to sanity in my
ways of living without the drink
By continue progress in making choices and moving
toward high goals
My sanity has returns and the compulsion to drink has
vanished from my life for today
As long as I keeps away from the first drink go to
meetings and reach out to help other
I will have a reasonably happy and healthy life free
from bondage of myself
But once I take any alcohol whatever into my system I
know something happens
In both the body and mind which will make it
virtually impossible for my to stop
Experience confirms this to me by watching others go
out again some never to return
I do not wish to ever set cycle of drinking in motion
have way to much to lose to do that
I know the main problem has always centered in my mind
rather than in my body
I know how irrational I was by seeing this
irrationality in myself thru the fourth step
I was in fact ill but today I understand the
difference between sane drinking and alcoholism
"Sanity" is defined as "soundness of mind."
and I sure did not have that in my drinking days
I know that as long as I keep away from drink I will
reacts much like other people who are sane
And as long as I let god guide me thru life I will be
happy and free
God bless each of you
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