Spirituality is essential to our sobriety.
The doctor said two ounces of alcohol, and this gin was only eighty proof–just forty percent alcohol–so I was shortchanging myself. I did the math. To get two ounces of real alcohol, I’d have to drink five ounces of gin!
Because this program did not dictate the name, size, shape, or color of the power that works here, I was forced to find my own.
The change has been a day-by-day change, one step at a time; but it all began with Step One and Step Two.
Well, that’s exactly what this book is about. Its main objective is to enable you to find a Power greater than yourself which will solve your problem.
At 27 years, he was getting close to a drink. Would he tell someone or keep it to himself? About a month before my 27th AA anniversary, I found myself thinking about a drink. Since I had that much time in the program, I rationalized that I should be able to have a drink at … Read more