Today we opened once again with the First Step. How deeply this was interesting to all of us in that meeting. We all agreed that all we have is dependent on our surrendering our drinking alcohol and then accepting this program as a result. I know it changed my whole life. Like each one of those of us in here we were totally grateful for this Step, which opened the door to this new free way of life.
This also reminded me and some others of the Second Step and how it started this program for us and helped us begin to learn what this program was about and how it worked. That was the statement that told us that we came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. And that was a wake up call for me and a lot of others.
First I learned, that if I didn’t begin to live a spiritual way of life, I could end up drinking again and dying as a result. That was what began to open my mind. And then it was what made me begin to believe in a Higher Power. I’m definitely not alone.
Anyway it was another reminder to this alcoholic of what it was that worked in here and began to give me a new way of living. It definitely reminded me once again what it is that has given me a great life I had never had before. It separated me from the past and opened the door into this wonderful new way of living. Makes me so grateful.
So, like others in here, I just have to wake up each and everyday and begin to live sober a day at a time. My dependence is on my giving myself to this program and doing what I learned in here. To be willing to freely give to others like myself what I was given in here. To have compassion and love for others. To accept this program as it is presented to all of us. I’m not in control and have to accept and do what it is I have learned. And to have faith and hope in this program and the Power greater than ourselves. To have gratitude and give thanks to the God of my understanding and all those, who have helped me to learn and grow in here. Thanks.