When one alcoholic/addict shares with another alcoholic/addict

[MajestyJo]

JUST FOR TODAY!

Guidance

from: "The Three Legacies of Alcoholics Anonymous"

"I [Bill W.] was in this anything-but-spiritual mood on the night [in December 1938] when the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous were written. I was sore and tired clear through. I lay in bed at 182 Clinton Street with pencil in hand and with a tablet of scratch paper on my knee. I could not get my mind on the job, much less put my heart in it. But here was one of those things that had to be done….

"Finally I started to write. I set out to draft more than six steps [used by Oxford Groups]; how many more I did not know. I relaxed and asked for guidance. With a speed that was astonishing, considering my jangling emotions, I completed the first draft. It took perhaps half an hour.

The words kept right on coming. When I reached a stopping point, I numbered the new steps. They added up to twelve."

© 1957, Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pages 160-161

May 2004

For me, this is totally awesome and it gives me goosebumps.

It tells me that the Steps were Divinely inspired and that when I turn my life and my will over to my Creator, that I too can get the answer, that I too can get the guidance and direction I need to stay clean and sober, one day at a time.

God Bless.

I don't have to be perfect, and even if I feel less than or not worthy, I can be of service to someone else. We all have a purpose and a message to carry, it is our message, although we will often hear our story told by someone else in the rooms. Even if it is just to make someone smile, feel loved, and/or feel good about themselves and let them know that "God doesn't make no junk," and He/She/It, loves them as they are. So many times we judge ourselves by our outside and forget that we are not our disease.