One of those well needed thoughts was brought to mind today in not only our meeting, but in a closed conversation with one of our attendees, another alcoholic like myself. And that was about what can happen to all of us, as we seek to stay sober a day at a time.
What this was all about was the BB and what I learned from all those old timers I knew back a long time ago. And that was our being human and not saints. What could cause us to trip and tumble over our old defects.
All of us had learned how to begin to change and get our defects out of us. And I know, as did my friend, that we could always begin our day with prayer and dedication to doing our Higher Power’s will for us this day. However, as these days go on, we can often find our minds drifting and our stumbling into one or a number of these defects. What we were told was to step back and pray and ask our Higher Power for help and be able to let go of whatever these things were doing to us. And then to change our attitudes from the negative into the positive. Then to start our day over again from the negative to the positive. This would once again lead us to staying sober this day.
What it did was to show us just how human and imperfect we really are. How we need to keep on trying to change and improve our lives. And experiences showed how this way of life can be made to help us not only stay sober, but to continue to live a spiritual way of life. It also shows how much we need our Higher Power and the help we can get from others like ourselves to still grow along spiritual lines.
All I have to do is to look at the spiritual axiom in the Tenth Step in the 12&12, which states that whenever we’re disturbed there is something wrong with us and not someone else. And we all have to change. This makes me grateful, because I’m an alcoholic human, who needs to grow closer to my Higher Power and stay sober. And the gift, which helps me, is to be able to see this in all those I have been enabled to witness and work with. And, of course makes me grateful and growing in faith, hope, and love.