Just for Today
Sunday, July 8, 2012
“Long since I had come to believe I was insane because I did so many things I didn’t want to do. I didn’t want to neglect my children. I loved them, I think, as much as any parent. But I did neglect them. I didn’t want to get into fights, but I did get into fights. I didn’t want to get arrested, but I did get arrested. I didn’t want to jeopardize the lives of innocent people by driving an automobile while intoxicated, but I did. I quite naturally came to the conclusion that I must be insane.” - Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, 1976, Ch 2 (“He Had to be Shown”), p 199.
Just for today, I need to reach into yesterday to remember and keep always that I did all I did not want to when I drank and that my intentions were little more than the best laid plans of mice and men. In remembering yesterday so as not to repeat today and tomorrow what I did then, may I also recognize and admit that I am powerless over alcohol. And with that admission, I have surmounted the First Step toward recovery. With that Step comes power and control to say I do not have to submit to what I cannot control - alcohol - and that my intention NOT to do what I DON’T want to do is in MY control. And I will own. Today, I seize control of what overpowers me by declaring no more. And our common journey continues. Just for today. - Chris M., 2012
Sunday, July 8, 2012
“Long since I had come to believe I was insane because I did so many things I didn’t want to do. I didn’t want to neglect my children. I loved them, I think, as much as any parent. But I did neglect them. I didn’t want to get into fights, but I did get into fights. I didn’t want to get arrested, but I did get arrested. I didn’t want to jeopardize the lives of innocent people by driving an automobile while intoxicated, but I did. I quite naturally came to the conclusion that I must be insane.” - Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, 1976, Ch 2 (“He Had to be Shown”), p 199.
Just for today, I need to reach into yesterday to remember and keep always that I did all I did not want to when I drank and that my intentions were little more than the best laid plans of mice and men. In remembering yesterday so as not to repeat today and tomorrow what I did then, may I also recognize and admit that I am powerless over alcohol. And with that admission, I have surmounted the First Step toward recovery. With that Step comes power and control to say I do not have to submit to what I cannot control - alcohol - and that my intention NOT to do what I DON’T want to do is in MY control. And I will own. Today, I seize control of what overpowers me by declaring no more. And our common journey continues. Just for today. - Chris M., 2012
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