A GIFT THAT GROWS WITH TIME

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Daily Reflections - June 26

For most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship and colorful imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 151

The longer I chased these elusive feelings with alcohol, the more out of reach they were. However, by applying this passage to my sobriety, I found that it described the magnificent new life made available to me by the A.A. program. "It" truly does "get better" one day at a time. The warmth, the love and the joy so simply expressed in these words grow in breadth and depth each time I read it. Sobriety is a gift that grows with time.

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Submitted by mamalauryn85 on Sun, 06/26/2022 - 16:06

Drinkinng had given me all those things and allowed me to be  "normal" or so I thought. I started AA about 13 years ago and I have fnally been able to put together 3 years of continuous sobriety. When I started this program I did think life was going to be boring. Everything  I did revolved around my drinnking and drug use. So starting out I literally had to take it  a second at a time until I could start putting days together. This lady had told me that the promises eventually cme true and they say "they will always materialize iif we work for them." So even the book tells us that they will come true if we do the work. This program has not been easy for me but by taking everything a day at a time the promises have come true in my life. I really live a life I never thought I'd be able to have if I was dtrinking or drugging. Each day is a new adventure in this gift that God gave to me.I get to be so many things today because of my sobriety.