IT DOESN’T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT: We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. – ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, page…
ACCEPTING OUR PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES: Our very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, and the people about us as they are. This…
THE 100% STEP: Only Step One, where we made the 100 percent admission we were powerless over alcohol, can be practiced with absolute perfection. – Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions,…
UNITED WE STAND: We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we…
AN ACT OF PROVIDENCE: It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our minds into such an obsession for destructive drinking that only an act…