- for restful sleep. The last two days wore me out!
- for freedom from worry. I do not worry nearly as much as I used to before my life changed due to the remarkable program of Alcoholics Anonymous.
- that gratitude is self-propelling
- to strive for humility and responsibility, my spiritual status depends on it
- to keep enough free space in my mind so that anything new has a chance to settle in
I had nowhere else to go. I crept into the meeting I'd gone to before I'd decided I could still drink. I'd hit rock-bottom. Drinking and sobriety were both unbearable. I sat in the back row, ready to flee again. There was an odd man who I'd seen before at the meeting. He never mixed with anyone. He'd spotted me come in and after a time he came and sat closer than I'd seen him sit next to anyone - still a few rows away, but close for him. Anyway, I stayed through to the end of the meeting. I didn't hear much, I sat there, lost, not knowing what to do, where to go. I noticed this man had moved closer, four or five seats away, and he said: 'Are you all right?' I said, ' It hurts.' And he said; 'I know.' Then he moved off. That's all I could have taken then. And that's all it took: One alcoholic reaching out the hand of AA to another. No matter how shaky either hand was. - Anonymous
7 comments:
We're left to assume the best about your tooth. Or was that really YOU in that story who said, "it hurts".
No, today I will contact the oral surgeon. Yesterday was too busy a day.
TRIF So B. I am assuming you completed the year long item?
I hope you are feeling better soon Happy Friday ♥
I got to give it away in order to keep it. Not the tooth!
i will send your tooth good thoughts!
Nice quote about reaching out a hand to another.
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