I’m really grateful for a lot right now. Grateful that I got to a meeting, grateful that I was asked out of the blue to lead it, grateful that some of the people there said that they identified.

One of the problems that I have with AA really has nothing to do with AA itself. It has to do with the members who think that it’s a cure all, or the only way to sobriety. It is neither of the two, just as Bill W. said. ["It would be a product of false pride to claim that A.A. is a cure-all, even for alcoholism." - Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age: A Brief History of A. A., pg. 232]. It also says in the Big Book that we are to use other help. ["But this does not mean that we disregard human
health measures. God has abundantly supplied this world with fine doctors, psychologists, and practitioners of various kinds. Do not hesitated to take your health problems to such persons. Most of them give freely of themselves, that their fellows may enjoy sound minds and bodies. Try to remember that though God has wrought miracles among us, we should never belittle a good doctor or psychiatrist. Their services are often indispensable in treating a newcomer and in following his case afterward." -- Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 133]

But it needs to get back to being my foundation. I’ve chosen to use it because I know it works when I work it, and even when I fall by the wayside, whether dry or drunk, it’s always there and readily available to me.

I’m grateful for that most of all.

Similar Posts: