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November 2009 
Threefold Opportunity
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Thoughtfood for Sunday November 30, 2008
Threefold Opportunity
The God I thought had judged and damned me had done nothing of the sort.
He had been listening, and in His own good time His answer came.
His answer was threefold: the opportunity for a life of sobriety;
Twelve Steps to practice, in order to attain and maintain that life of sobriety; fellowship within the program,
ever ready to sustain and help me each twenty-four hour day. . .
In the use of this opportunity, the onus is on me.
© 1973 AAWS, Came To Believe . . ., p 11.
From the Big Book:
Chapter 7; Working With Others:
Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail."
c. 1939, AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, Working With Others, p. 89.
Prayer for the day:
"I pray that I may lose my limitations in the immensity of God's love. I pray that my spirit may be in harmony with His spirit."
c. 1975, Hazelden Foundation, Twenty-Four Hours A Day, Nov. 30.
Quote for the day:
"What is actual is actual only for one time
And only for one place." __T.S. Elliot
My share:
Within six months of my sobriety date, my sponsor took me to a treatment center and introduced me as the featured speaker. I doubted I had any experience, strength or hope to share. He assured me I had much more of that than those to whom I would speak. After the meeting, several clients came up to thank me for sharing. I saw in their eyes a hope that said, "If you can do it, so can I." I was hooked. Service to others is the fundamental building block of future strength. Be Good To You, Dave
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HI Dave…
My hats off to you for your commitment to sobriety!!….It takes a very strong person to admit there is a problem in the first place…..I spent the first 10 years of my life living with my grandmother, and watching her polish off large Molson before lunch( which I guess the american equivillant to a 40)….as a child I thought it was normal….but when I became old enough to understand….it really hit me…she had a major problem…. I see how easy it is to fall into that pattern….and I wonder what made you realize that it was getting out of hand and becoming a problem?….
Thanks….Angie.
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I can still remember working in a bar where 3 best friends drank every night after work. Until one of them sobered up. He didn't do so by choice it was because he got cancer and had no other choice. He honestly tried to keep his friendships that he had with them for 30+ years but after about 30 days he realized he no longer had anything in common with them. He of course made new friends that didn't drink but I remember him telling me that he use to think they were lame but it wasn't that way at all.. They were insightful and were there when he needed them. He couldn't even relate to his old buddies anymore.
I'm actually going through those feelings now…..when I truely evaluate the relationship I have with a good part of my circle, be it friends and even family……I see that most have then are based on “partying”….when I remove that element, there's not much left…..and to be honest that kind of scares me….