When one alcoholic/addict shares with another alcoholic/addict

[MajestyJo]

What Is Acceptance?

www.barefootsworld.net/aaacceptance.html

By Bill W.
-- AA Grapevine - March 1962 --

I certainly know that the Serenity Prayer is about acceptance. For me, it is about knowing the difference about what I can change or what I can't. I find that I could have made it much easier on myself by quitting the debating society.

Have to accept where they are at in their program. As my sponsor use to say to me, be grateful that you aren't in the same place. There is always someone who 'knows' how it is done. I may know something but in the moment, it flies out the window and comes back later to bite me in the butt and I think, now why didn't I do that before.

Accepting ourselves and others is not easy. We can say the words but it is an altogether different thing when it comes to feeling it. Even more difficult to let it go.

[MajestyJo]

Most alcoholics would rather die than get sober.
And they do. - Anon.

From Alkiespeaks

How true this is. I have had people tell me they spilled more than I drank. Another person said, "If I drank like you, I would still be drinking."

Well I no longer wanted to drink like me. It wasn't fun any more. It stopped working, and I kept needing more. I couldn't afford to keep me in the style I would like to become accustomed. I didn't want to do what I would have had to do to maintain my habit.

For so many years, it was, "Don't tell me what to do!" I'll show them, and I would have another drink, generally another bottle. I drank to their health, yet it was hurting me and I couldn't see it.

My program does not work in principle. It only works in practice.

Pocket Sponsor

I practice the principles in all my affairs. It works when I work it. My sponsor always said, "Practice, practice, practice."

One day I just might get it right from beginning to end.

Something I think was on the old site.

Love the quote here, they are so true in my life. From the time I found AA 25 years ago, using was not an option. For me, it was to die and I chose to live.

Thanksgiving is an all year found thing for me even though I lag behind expressing it each day. Thanksgiving is my favourite holiday because I love the Fall and all the trimmings to a Thanksgiving dinner.