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Haven’t we earned the right to just sit and take it a break from it all? No! In the past, we avoided life. All this takes energy and means taking risk. We go to meetings, work the Twelve Steps, read, make new friends. Often, we just want to sit and do nothing. There is always time to do things the right way.

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I’ll be relaxed and confident while carrying on a full day’s activity. At all times, however, we must continue to make choices and bear responsibility for our actions. In a spiritual sense, “Easy does it” also means letting the Higher Power carry the load. The person following the “Easy does it” principle pays attention to every detail, but carries on without reasonable haste or excessive loafing. It’s a way of trying to win without doing sufficient work. The person seeking an easier, softer way usually avoids taking some of the steps that are considered necessary in maintaining sobriety. “Easy does it” works because it describes an approach to action that is relaxed, confident, and careful. The softer, easier way doesn’t work because it grows out of self-deception and falls short of a thorough working of the program. If so, why are we also urged to embrace the slogan “Easy does it?” Which is right?īoth are right, because they express two different ideas. There’s no “softer, easier way,” we’re told. Only God is unchanging only He has all the truth there is.

Even good principles can sometimes be displaced by the discovery of still better ones. Here we must needs discard bad or ineffective principles in favor of good ones that work. Such changes are accomplished by a belief in and a practice of sound principles. From drinking to society, from dishonesty to honesty, from conflict to serenity, from hate to love, from childish independence to adult responsibility-all this and infinitely more represent change for the better. I pray that I may keep serene at the center of my being.Ĭhange is the characteristic of all growth. I pray that I may wear the world like a loose garment. Nothing in this world can separate you from the love of God. Calmness is based on complete trust in God. The eternal life is calmness, and when a man enters into that, then he lives as an eternal being. Only when you are calm and serene can you do good work. When the soul finds its home of rest in God, then it is then that real life begins. Withdraw into the calm of communion with God. Am I going to step back through that door in the wall to my old helpless, hopeless, drunken life? Our attitude toward life changes from one of pride and selfishness to one of humility and gratitude.

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By having regular meetings so that we can associate with other alcoholics who have come through that same door in the wall, by encouraging us to tell the story of our own sad experiences with alcohol, and by showing us how to help other alcoholics. Today my son and I thank God for his intervention. The entire episode convinced me of my powerlessness and the unmanageability of my life. My son lived and his disease is in remission.

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came within days, through an odd series of coincidences, and I have remained sober ever since. I was left staring into God’s eyes, begging for help. I redoubled my efforts to block my feelings, but now the alcohol had stopped working. Doctors’ efforts to help him proved useless. At the peak of my despair, my infant son became critically ill with a rare disease. I thought I was destined to die alone and that I deserved it. My drinking and other drug use were killing me, but I had never met a recovering person or an A.A.

105Īfter losing my career, family and health, I remained unconvinced that my way of life needed a second look. ” … out of every season of grief or suffering, when the hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered, and that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does ‘move in a mysterious way: His wonders to perform.'”

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