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Thoughts
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Practice
"God willing, we members of AA may never again have to deal
with drinking, but we do have to deal with sobriety every day. How do we
do it? By learning -- through practicing the Twelve Steps and through
sharing at meetings -- how to cope with the problems that we looked to
booze to solve, back in our drinking days."
c. 1976AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, p.
560
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Thought to Consider . . .
There's
no elevator, you have to take the Steps.
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S T E P S = Solutions To Every Problem in
Sobriety
Many years later, although alcohol is not part of my life and I
no longer have the compulsion to drink, it can still occur to me what a good
drink tastes like and what it can do for me, from my stand-at-attention
alcoholic taste buds right down to my stretched out tingling toes. As my sponsor
used to point out, such thoughts are like red flags, telling me that something
is not right, that I am stretched beyond my sober limit. It's time to get back
to basic AA and see what needs changing. That special relationship with alcohol
will always be there, waiting to seduce me again. I can stay protected by
continuing to be an active member of AA.
2001, AAWS, Inc.,
Alcoholics Anonymous, pages
396-397