A few weeks ago, an oldtimer created a bit of a stir by reading the original version of How It Works at the beginning of our meeting.
Many people (read: newcomers) were visibly uncomfortable with the hardline voice contained therein, but I loved it!
My favorite passage is this one:
Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after, have been designed to sell you three pertinent ideas: (a) That you are alcoholic and cannot manage your own life. (b) That probably no human power can relieve your alcoholism. (c) That God can and will. If you are not convinced on these vital issues, you ought to re-read the book to this point or else throw it away!
The hardcore crux of the matter of alcoholism is that the only existing solution is the development of a spiritual life. That might look that the religion of one's upbringing, but it certainly doesn't have to. As long as it's a God of the drunk's understanding, he's on the way.
If you won't work to discover who that God is, get yourself up of that seat so someone who will do the work can have it. You have obviously not hit bottom yet. You may wish whatever drove you in here was your bottom, but it wasn't. You need to go lower.
I was about to write "and may God help you then." But you wouldn't agree with that yet, huh?
One day you will.
1 comments:
I have this version saved at home and read it in my BB, it's powerful adn I think that it's very true, thank you for the reminder!
Gabriella
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