Sept. 22, 2012 - Just for Today

Just for Today
Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012

Just for today, the lifeline has been tossed and the Big Book provided. This is the day I grab onto both. The time for wallowing stops, and it’s time to get to the business of moving on. God help me if I can’t say enough’s enough, that I haven’t become disgusted enough with myself, that I obviously prefer life in a gutter. God grant me the anger, even fury, to mark today when I realize I can’t kid myself any longer just as I stopped fooling everyone long ago - except myself. Today, I’m sick of the pathetic person I am waking to every morning with a hangover, using whatever excuse or justification I can to keep drinking, fed up with the person I am who evokes from most everyone a sigh and shake of the head as if I’m a lost cause. Alright, then! Yesterday, I was a lost cause; today, I’m angry and fed up enough to grab onto the cause that can restore me. The lifeline of AA has been thrown to me, the Big Book opened; today, I take up both. Enough’s enough. And our common journey continues. Just for today. - Chris M., 2012