*~*^Just For Today!^*~*
AA taught me how not to
drink. And also, on the twenty-four hour plan, it taught me how to live. I know
I do not have to be queen of them all to salve a frightened ego. Through going
to meetings and listening, and occasionally speaking, through doing Twelve Step
work, whereby in helping others you are both the teacher and the student, by
making many wonderful AA friends, I have been taught all the things in life that
are worth having. I am no longer interested in living in a palace, because
palace living was not the answer for me. Nor were those impossible dreams I used
to have the things I really wanted.
2003, AAWS,
Inc., Experience, Strength & Hope, pages
362-363
I pray that I may be kept from evil by the grace of God. I pray that
henceforth I will try to keep myself more unspotted by the
world.
Hazelden Foundation PO Box 176 Center City, MN
55012