Step by Step
Sunday, June 23, 2013
" ...(W)e deal with alcohol - cunning, baffling, powerful! Without help it is too much for us. But there is One who has all power - that One is God. May you find Him now.
'Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection and care with complete abandon." - Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, 1976, Ch 5 ("How It Works"), pp 58-9.
Today ..."with complete abandon." If indeed I stand "at the turning point," as the Big Book suggests, I may be there because the ideas, methods, ploys and "half measures" I used to "control" or stop my drinking clearly didn't work. And because I haven't come up with a better idea, what is there to lose by surrendering "with complete abandon," surrendering to the First Step, that "(I am) powerless" and to a power greater and stronger than alcohol - and myself? Moving in the Program "with complete abandon" is no "easier, softer way," certainly. But going on and holding onto what I have tried and what has failed is guaranteed to make my way progressively harder, maybe eventually fatal. Today, I surrender "with complete abandon." And our common journey continues. Step by step. - Chris M., 2013
Sunday, June 23, 2013
" ...(W)e deal with alcohol - cunning, baffling, powerful! Without help it is too much for us. But there is One who has all power - that One is God. May you find Him now.
'Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection and care with complete abandon." - Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, 1976, Ch 5 ("How It Works"), pp 58-9.
Today ..."with complete abandon." If indeed I stand "at the turning point," as the Big Book suggests, I may be there because the ideas, methods, ploys and "half measures" I used to "control" or stop my drinking clearly didn't work. And because I haven't come up with a better idea, what is there to lose by surrendering "with complete abandon," surrendering to the First Step, that "(I am) powerless" and to a power greater and stronger than alcohol - and myself? Moving in the Program "with complete abandon" is no "easier, softer way," certainly. But going on and holding onto what I have tried and what has failed is guaranteed to make my way progressively harder, maybe eventually fatal. Today, I surrender "with complete abandon." And our common journey continues. Step by step. - Chris M., 2013
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