A Vision For You

[MajestyJo]

Our book is meant to be suggestive only. We realize we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order. But obviously you cannot transmit something you haven't got. See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others. This is the Great Fact for us.

Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to Him and to your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Give freely of what you find and join us. We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the Road of Happy Destiny.

May God bless you and keep you-until then.

It may be a program of suggestion, but for me it has been a case of darn well betters or I am putting myself on dangerous ground. I also observed people not doing some of the do things and saw them go out, and some where lucky enough to come back, and yet others who never made it back.

Get back to basics and this vision can happen for you.

- Go to meetings
- Get a sponsor
- Go to meetings
- Get a home group
- Go to meetings
- Get active in service
- Go to meetings
- Get right with God
- Go to meetings
- Get actively workings the steps
- Go to meetings.

[MajestyJo]

From: "A Vision for You"

Thus we grow. And so can you, though you be but one man with this book in your hand. We believe and hope it contains all you will need to begin.

We know what you are thinking. You are saying to yourself: "I'm jittery and alone. I couldn't do that." But you can. You forget that you have just now tapped a source of power much greater than yourself. To duplicate, with such backing, what we have accomplished is only a matter of willingness, patience and labor.

Alcoholics Anonymous, pages 162-163

The Hoffields - Just For Today AA

When I got to AA, I found hope. I had been trying to stop and STAY stopped for eight years and when I got here, I found people with many years of sobriety. Six months seemed like forever. Three months I was in such a fog, I hadn't even got a group and didn't get my pin until someone gave me one many years later to complete my set. I had to add open-mindedness and honesty to the list in order to receive the gift of sobriety (soundness of mind).

I couldn't find sobriety in dysfunctional relationships, using pills to replace the alcohol, working, shopping, food, etc. I was able to stay sober, but sobriety was a whole different thing and something that came as my relationship to my HP grew and through Him, I was able to change and acknowledge the things I needed to change and work the program (the 12 Steps).