When I was a child, I acquired some of the traits that had a lot to do with my insatiable craving for alcohol.
I pray that I may obey His guidance to the best of my ability. I pray that God may make His home in my humble and obedient heart. Where God’s spirit is, there is your home. The rough stone steps of obedience lead up to where the mosaic floor of love and joy is laid. You cannot obey God to the best of your ability without in time realizing God’s love and responding to that love. Obedience to God’s will is the key unlocking the door to God’s kingdom. God can only dwell with the humble and the obedient. Pride stands sentinel at the door of the heart and shuts out the love of God. Do I want to go back to that alcoholic world? Looking at the world through the bottom of a whiskey glass is no fun after you’ve become an alcoholic. That alcoholic world is not a pleasant place for an alcoholic to live in. That world of drunkenness, conflict, and misery. But I know that if I take just one drink, I’ll go right back into that old world. A world of sobriety, peace, serenity, and happiness. When I came into A.A., I came into a new world. Being a little kinder, a little slower to anger, a little more loving makes my life better–day by day.
Fun and benefits for me are in the willingness to do the actions, not to get immediate results. That’s what practicing the principles means to me. The more I am willing to help others, the more rewards I receive. I don’t realize that the more I’m willing to act differently, the more exciting my life is. Sometimes when I’ve become willing to do what I should have been doing all along, I want praise and recognition. The essence of all growth is a willingness to change for the better and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails.
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