Just for Today
Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012
" ...(O)ur problems were of our own making. Bottles were only a symbol. Besides, we have stopped fighting anybody or anything. We have to!" - Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, 1976, Ch 7 ("Working With Others"), p 103.
Just for today, the fights have been many, the injuries deep and some scars permanent. Lies have been bountiful, pain to myself and others indelible, and the fun ceased long ago if it was ever there. Enough is enough. To continue as is, is a sprial into a pit from which there may be no escape; to alter course now, hope prevails. Today is the day I begin to answer what exists in my emotional and spiritual psyche to fuel it with alcoholic drinking, and I have grown tired of "fighting anybody or anything." My hope cannot be in my own will power; it is as mythical as the magical unicorn. Hope now falls on AA and my commitment to honestly and diligently work its Steps ad Principles. There, I have no reason to fight anyone and anything - other than my own resistance to surrender completely. Today, enough is enough; I surrender completely. And our common journey continues. Just for today. - Chris M., 2012
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