Action is the key to sobriety.
Last Updated on Thursday, 29 January 2009 16:34 Saturday, 13 December 2008 17:43
Then one of the groups I attended asked me to become a coffee maker and that was OK with me too. I did these things because I was asked to. I had no idea of how much I would get out of them. That is an overriding theme throughout my recovery. In meetings you hear people share and you realize your not alone and that gives you hope. But it is the action of doing things that these people share and ask of you that the real benefit takes place. The gift of faith and knowing that a higher power is working in your life.
If you have the faith to follow the ones before you and do what they do. You will experience many spiritual gifts and become truly sober. That's right doing for others what others have done for you actually helps. It is when I began to feel better and started to put myself first that the slip began to hapen, that's when the incidiness of this disease began to inch it's way back into my life.
I believe a slip happens way before you actually pick up the drink. Yes, it is true that if you don't pick up the first drink you will not get drunk. But I believe that i am powerless over the next drink and without the AA fellowship and a higher power in my life expressed through service and action, it is only a matter of time and circumstance until I pick up the next drink. If willpower worked I would not be here.
