Every time we have a new person or someone coming back after a binge it enthuses people like myself. The hope is that we can help them by sharing our own experiences with them. Freely giving what was so freely given to us by the old timers back when we came in.
Hopefully someone will say something, which can wake them up to what is wrong with them. The same thing which is wrong with us. I always go back to the BB and the story of Dr. Carl Jung and the young man he had worked with to help him get sober. The man was returning to the US after about a seemingly successful treatment for his alcoholism. When the young man got to Paris he drank again.
So the young man returned to Dr. Jung. Jung told him there wasn’t much hope for him. He said he was a chronic alcoholic and few if any got sober with that degree of alcoholism. And that’s when Jung told him what would later open Bill W. up. He said that the man needed a spiritual experience. The young man said he was hopeful, because he said he practiced religion. Jung told him that was not enough.
Today we know this young man had that experience and he joined the Oxford Group. And that was when he told an alcoholic named Ebby how what he had learned which had helped him. At that time it helped Ebby. And then Ebby went and told Bill. And Bill eventually was able to pass this on to Dr. Bob and this program was born.
I told the young man something of the same thing, which was what opened the door to sobriety for me. I know a lot of others passed the same message on to him. And that for me is the Serenity Prayer. The things I cannot change. It’s up to that young man. None of us has the power to change anyone else. Only ourselves.
Reminded me of why I am here. To stay sober a day at a time. I am so grateful.