Here it is. A great day or a bad day. Which will it be? It’s our choice. What’ll it be?
Let’s take a look. Today I awoke and there was an alcoholic lying there in my body. What do you know? But this alcoholic wasn’t drinking. No hangover, knew where the car was, my wallet, my glasses. Everything was there. I even knew what I did last night and who I was with. Better yet, I didn’t lean over the side of the bed to find a bottle or a beer can. I knew who I was and where I was. And it’s been that way for a while. Sounds like the start of a good day, even a great day.
Maybe I’m not feeling well. Maybe I think that even though the day is off to a good start there’s a booby trap waiting just around the corner. Maybe I’m going to meet someone I won’t like and I’m going to lose my temper and we’ll end up in an argument. Maybe I woke up with feeling out of sorts and I’ll just go out and find someone to exercise my anger on. Maybe I’ll just sit here and project something bad and start feeling sorry for myself. Maybe I need help to get started and there’s no one around when you need them. Maybe I need a problem and I’ll have to figure out what it is. In any event I feel like trouble and I need to find out what it is. Maybe it’s not going to be a good day after all.
Wait a minute. Maybe I should do what my sponsor and the BB told me I should do. Give thanks for the fact that I’m still sober. Maybe I should ask for help from the hand of help from above. Maybe I should start my day by asking for God’s will not mine. Maybe I need the strength to get started and I can ask God for that. Maybe I feel guilty about something and need to ask for forgiveness and then put it aside and get on with the day. Maybe I owe and amend and need to take care of that. Maybe I need to ask for the courage to do that, because I don’t want to drink again. Maybe I should remember where I came from and what will happen if I forget. Maybe this day has possiblilities after all. Maybe I need to get to a meeting at sometime before bed tonight. There’s always the fellowship.
Maybe this is the day I will run into someone who needs help. Maybe I will find someone who needs to be listened to.
Maybe I’ll be witness to someone, who will remind me of where I came from. Maybe I’ll have the chance to talk to someone like that and share my experience, strength and hope. It may be at a meeting I’ll get this chance, or I may get a call to go on a twelfth step. Wouldn’t that be something. I may find a way to get out of myself. There’s always that possibility in any day.Maybe I can call someone or go see someone I know who needs help. Someone who is ailing and can’t get out.
This is a day that I can practice the principles of this program in all my affairs. Just think of it. Maybe I won’t do so well and maybe I fall short. But so what? No one is perfect. But I can try. And the reason I have the opportunity to try is that I haven’t taken a drink this day.
Maybe it will be a great day. That’s a thought.
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