A Dozen Steps

The Heart Of True Sobriety

by Mark on July 2nd, 2008

Today’s Daily Reflection;

The Heart Of True Sobriety

“We find that no one need have difficulty with the spirituality of the program. Willingness, honesty and open-mindedness are the essentials of recovery. But these are indispensable.” Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 570

And we are then offered three questions:

1. Am I honest enough to accept myself as I am and let this be the ‘me’ that I let others see? Yes_____ No_____
2. Do I have the willingness to go to any length, to do whatever is necessary to stay sober? Yes_____ No_____
3. Do I have the open-mindedness to hear what I have to hear, to think what I have to think, and to feel what I have to feel? Yes_____ No_____

Questions which may lead us to knowledge we didn’t think we had…

“If my answer to these questions is ‘Yes,” I know enough about the spirituality of the program to stay sober.“

Then, “As I continue to work the Twelve Steps, I move on to the Heart of True Sobriety: serenity with myself, with others, and with God as I understand Him.“

I no longer have the need to “manipulate” others to discover what I did in that black out I was in last night that those others didn’t know I was in… thankfully!

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