Bill D. wrote:
March 20
Higher Power
"Most of us had no trouble admitting that addiction had become a
destructive force in our lives. Our best efforts
who knows what your best efforts are? only when you are dead, can your life
be reviewed in totality and your best efforts discerned.
maybe next week, your _better_ efforts will result in a positive result?
in the meantime, order another bag of crack.
resulted in ever
greater destruction and despair. At some point, we realized we needed
the help of some Power greater than ourselves."
there are no cop outs in life.
Basic Text, p. 24
Most of us know without a doubt that our lives have been filled with
destruction. Learning that we have a disease called addiction
there is no such disease.
helps us
understand the source or cause of the destruction. We can recognize
addiction as a power that has worked devastation in our lives. When we
take the First Step, we admit that the destructive force of addiction
is bigger than we are. We are powerless over it.
we are powerless over many things in life. one of the things we are not
powerless over is our ownselves and what we choose to do.
At this point, our only hope is to find some Power greater than our
addiction-a Power bent on preserving life, not ending it. We don't
have to understand it or even name it; we only have to believe that
there could be such a Higher Power. The belief that a benevolent Power
greater than our addiction just might exist gives us enough hope to
stay clean a day at a time.
Just for today: I believe in the possibility of some Power greater
than my addiction.
theoretically it is possible that Bill might do something better than pump
gas for a living, but it's a outlier.
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