![]() ![]() Many times, we cling too tightly to conditions that could simply right themselves if we would only let go. Continue to hold the stick back, and you cause a fatal spin. Student pilots learn a simple method for getting an airplane out of a stall Release the stick forward, and the airplane rights itself. For us, material well-being always follows spiritual progress it never precedes. As our drinking became worse, money was only an urgent requirement which could supply us with the next drink and the temporary comfort of oblivion it brought. Money was the symbol of pleasure and self-importance. Without realizing it, we were just accumulating funds for the next spree. In our drinking time, we acted as if the money supply were inexhaustible, though between binges we’d sometimes go to the other extreme and become miserly. ![]() I pray that I may delay action until I feel that I am doing the right thing. In the momentous decisions and crises of life, they may ask God’s guidance, but into the small situations of life, they rush alone. I must learn, in the little daily situations of life, to delay action until I am sure that I am doing the right thing at the right time. It is always a temptation to do something at once, instead of waiting until the proper time. I must learn not to do things at the wrong time, that is, before I am ready or before conditions are right. So by honestly facing our weakness and keeping ever present the knowledge that for us alcoholism is a disease with which we are afflicted, we can take the necessary steps to arrest it. We admit that we are alcoholics and we would be foolish if we refused to accept our handicap and do something about it. When we are honest about its presence, we may discover that it is imaginary and can be overcome by a change of thinking. We must know the nature of our weakness before we can determine how to deal with it. The warmth, the love and the joy so simply expressed in these words grow in breadth and depth each time I read it. It “truly does get better” one day at a time. However, by applying this passage to my sobriety, I found that it described the magnificent new life made available to me by the A.A. The longer I chased these elusive feelings with alcohol, the more out of reach they were. It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good. It means release from care, boredom and worry. For most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship and colorful imagination. ![]()
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