A Dozen Steps

To Stay Sober

by Mark on September 11th, 2007

Because those folks who’d been here before me kept telling me that if I didn’t do a thorough “pick-a-number” Step I’d be doomed to drink again! That’s why I did a Ninth Step - to stay sober. To change so I could live life one day at a time without having to drink!

Not so I could experience the Promises… damn.

Since I am always paraphrasing the last paragraph in the Ninth Step in the 12&12, here is an exact quote;

“For the readiness to take the full consequences of our past acts, and to take responsibility for the well-being of others at the same time, is the very spirit of Step Nine.”

And that’s why we don’t “unload a detailed account of extramarital adventuring upon the shoulders of our unsuspecting wife or husband.”

I think it’s a different matter if they’re not so unsuspecting.

Please - don’t “do” the Ninth Step so you can “experience” the Promises. That is not the purpose of the Ninth Step.

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