Strange day in a way. One of those days “off”. A Saturday with no plans. I thought about that this evening only to realize just how wrong I was. With this disease, alcoholism, there are no days off.
Had an interesting conversation with a couple of technologists working on my computer last night. They asked me how I used my computer and I told them emails, mainly, and my website. That caught there interest and they asked me what the website was all about. And, figuring I was still anonymous for the most part, I told them it was about alcoholism and staying sober. They wanted to know how long I had been doing this and I told them. Both of them looked at each other and then back at me and said that I should publish a book.
That had been brought up to me before by a few people, who are connected to this website, and I told them the same thing I did last night. I felt it would be wrong to publish it, because, even though I write these for myself, I know that others are reading them and that might be of help to them as it is to me. The one man smiled and said that I was talking about principles. And he was right.
That got me to stop and take a few moments to consider what it is I am doing. And what’s that? It’s about sobriety. Staying sober a day at a time. A lot of days, when I glance back, but overall good days. Days without a drink of alcohol. Days which begin with a prayer and some meditation. A contact with my Higher Power. A reminder to me that the spiritual life is not a theory. With everyone else I have to live it.
Just pausing to be grateful and remind myself of why I came here.