Today we read the Seventh Step in the 12&12. All about humility. Something I need to stop and think about over and over again…and again.
I talked about this again, after the meeting with a friend of mine, who had also attended this meeting. I know that I always think that humility is not in my life. So did my friend.
When it comes to staying sober, we have to learn humility. Yet here we are feeling we are never humble. Yet, one of the things which is helping us to stay sober, it this very thing. Our inability to achieve humility. The very fact that we find ourselves going back and seeking humility over time is what I think helps us to stay sober one day at a time.
Once again I have learned in here that we are not saints. We’re human alcoholics, who are going to bumble, and stumble again and again, overtime in here. In fact, as those old timers told us, right up to the day we will die. They definitely helped me to begin to understand this. I was able, not just stumble myself, but witness the fact that this is exactly what happens.
At the end of the reading and after the meeting, this is exactly what we talked about. In fact my old sponsor and other old timers helped me to make sense out of this. They insisted that I, and others, stay sober a day at a time. To attend meetings almost a day at a time. To stay open and share with others and them with us. To strive to continue to try to live a spiritual way of life. To do what we can to practice the Twelve Steps. And, of course, to stay sober each and everyday. And to be grateful, and accept this way of life.
So, here we were at the end of the meeting, sharing all of this. What a blessing to be able to be open and talk about this. Makes me grateful to know that I am not alone, but in the same place as others in here. I know that when I look back at all those, who helped me stay sober, that I am no different than them. What it does is demonstrate to me and others that we are able to do what they told us to do. To stay sober a day at a time.