Recovery From Alcoholism Is Contigent

Experience has proven that recovery from Alcoholism is contingent on:

1. Having a sincere desire to stop drinking.
2. Admitting and believing in our innermost hearts that we are powerless over alcohol.
3. Looking upon alcoholism as a fatal and incurable illness involving the body, mind, and spirit.
4. Considering ourselves as patients in AA for treatment.
5. Identifying alcohol as a poison for us rather than a beverage.
6. Making it our business to understand how alcohol affects us.
7. Realizing we are alcoholics.
8. Learning, practicing and having faith in the twelve steps of the AA program.
9. Believing we can arrest our alcoholism, but we can never drink normally again.
10. Gaining a layperson's knowledge of how alcohoism affects our health and well-being.
11. Using knowledge and inderstanding of our illness not only to gain sobriety but to guard against the danger of returning to the drink.
12. Doing this by partially keeping in our minds a mental picture of the unmanageable life alcohol demands from us and our powerlessness over it.

Taken from The Little Red Book For Women

Today was a great day. I have so many things to be grateful for today. It was a very long day today. I was sober today thanks to a power greater than myself and the fellowship and program of AA. Because I was sober I was able to sit with a family all afternoon in the hospital and to provide them with strength and comfort. Because I was sober today I was able to go to work and do a good job there. Because I was sober today I was able to take care of my family. Because I was sober today I was able to be there for a fellow member of the fellowship who had fallen down and gice them a hand to get back up aand try again. Because of the things that have happened in my life I can be there for others who suffer. For all these things and for those who came before me and gave me those things and for my Higher Power I am truly grateful. Tomorrow when I get up I have the opportunity to do all those things again, provided I follow a few simple steps to maintain a spiritual condition that will give me a reprieve from alcoholism.

PS. For all those who are sendong prayers and good wishes.....my Exam was postponed until June 7th.....