Powerlessness
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Thoughtfood for Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Powerlessness
I cannot make anyone love me, or even like me. Oh, I still have some of my active drunks talent to create a scene and twist a conversation so someone may be forced into saying what I want to hear, but I have no power to make anyone feel anything. All I can do is work to make myself worthy of love. As these thoughts came to me -- and they came almost in the words I've written out here -- I felt a great relief.
© 1986 The AA Grapevine, Inc., The Best of the Grapevine [Vol. 2], pp. 104-5
From the Big Book:
"Once confused and baffled by the seeming futility of existence, they (we) show the underlying reasons why they were making heavy going of life. Leaving aside the drink question, they tell why living was so unsatisfactory. They show how the change came over them."
c. 1939, AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, We Agnostics, p. 51.
Prayer for the day:
"I pray that I may be calm in the midst of storms.
I pray that I may pass on this calmness to others who are lonely and full of fear.
c. 1975, Hazelden Foundation, Twenty-Four Hours A Day, July 1.
Quote for the day:
"I am glad that so much movement happens in this stillness."
-- Richard Land
My share:
I had the opportunity to sleep in today and took advantage of it. By not setting the alarm clock, I snoozed till eight o'clock. Very unusual for this early riser. But I sleep soundly these days, with no worries about run-ins with the law. I remember when and how I got home last night. I didn't have to pass out, I fell asleep, and I woke up refreshed, I didn't "come to" in a sweat. What a difference AA makes. Be Good To You, Dave
Access: Public
alcoholics anonymous
August 2008 
Hi Dave!!
I am glad to meet you and enjoyed your writing and your honesty, am rejoicing with you in your victories!!
I think you will like and relate to two pieces of my poetry in particular..
Solitude
A woman in transition..
of course, there is much more…but these two in particular i think you will relate to..let me know…
thanks..and blessings..
yaffa