August
“At last, acceptance proved to be the key to my drinking problem. …When I stopped living in the problem and began living in the answer, the problem went away. From that moment on, I have not had a single compulsion to drink.”
– Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd Edition, 1976, “They Stopped in Time,” Ch 17 (“Doctor, Alcoholic, Addict”), pp 448-49.
Today, after living so long in the problem of drinking, let me understand and believe that now, as an alcoholic who does not drink, I am free to live in the answer – sobriety. By living in sobriety, I a, free of fighting the temptation to drink again, free of the fear of being caught and of shame, anger, resentment, loneliness and hopelessness. The problem of drinking offers no freedom; the answer of sobriety does. Let me think and re-think until I understand the fine line between living in the problem of resisting temptation to drink and living in the answer of sobriety and, in understanding, I can begin to loosen the problem’s grip on me and embrace the answer. And the answer is the Program and the principles it impresses. Today, I no longer have to fight or live with the problem; I have an answer. And our common journey continues.
Today, after living so long in the problem of drinking, let me understand and believe that now, as an alcoholic who does not drink, I am free to live in the answer – sobriety. By living in sobriety, I a, free of fighting the temptation to drink again, free of the fear of being caught and of shame, anger, resentment, loneliness and hopelessness. The problem of drinking offers no freedom; the answer of sobriety does. Let me think and re-think until I understand the fine line between living in the problem of resisting temptation to drink and living in the answer of sobriety and, in understanding, I can begin to loosen the problem’s grip on me and embrace the answer. And the answer is the Program and the principles it impresses. Today, I no longer have to fight or live with the problem; I have an answer. And our common journey continues.
Step by step. – Chris M.
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