I just got a phone call from a good friend and was reminded again that it’s always just for today.
What I was thinking about was the process we go through, when we find ourselves falling short in any area of our life. My usual thoughts when this happens is to go back over whatever mistakes I make and kick myself for my failures. What I was reminded of was to stop doing that and to put those things to rest and remember that I only have to deal with this day. The past is the past and if I have to make amends do it and get on with right now.
That’s not an easy thing to do for an alcoholic like me. I tend to want to wander mobidly around in the past. But I am reminded by others that’s a waste of time. All I have to do is to run my tenth step by me, ask God for help, and pick myself up and dust myself off and get back on the beam, as Bill tells us.
What a gift AA gives us by showing us that this truly is always just for today. That was one of the first things I remember, when I came in. I only have to stop drinking for just one day. This is the day. Today. And it’s always today.
I remember the story of a bar down in NYC on Third Ave. It had a sign over the bar, which announced to its customers “Free Drinks Tomorrow”. When the drunks showed up the next day they were told that it was today and not tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes. Onlly today.
Anyway, that’s what I was thinking.
Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! – their life, your story.