THE PAST IS OVER

May 12 - Daily reflections

A.A. experience has taught us we cannot live alone with our  pressing  problems  and  the  character  defects  which cause or aggravate them. If. . . Step Four . . . has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember . . . then  the need  to  quit  living  by  ourselves  with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever. We have to talk to somebody about them.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 55

Whatever is done is over. It cannot be changed. But my attitude about it can be changed through talking with those who have gone before and with sponsors. I can wish the past never was, but if I change my actions in regard to what I have done, my attitude will change. I won't have to wish the past away. I can change my feelings and attitudes, but only through my actions and the help of my fellow alcoholics.