Challenges

Thoughtfood for Monday, June 8, 2009

Challenges

There is no easier, softer way.

To bring the great escape act into sobriety

is to travel with a companion that led me to despair long ago.

The teaching I receive in AA about courage

and love helps me to grapple

with the challenges of life as they are given to me

one day at a time.
- The Best of the Grapevine [Vol. 3],  p. 320

From the Big Book:

"Nearly every modern employer feels a moral responsibility for the well-being of his help, and he tries to meet these responsibilities.  That he has not always done so for the alcoholic is easily understood.  To him the alcoholic has often seemed a  fool of the first magnitude.  Because of the employee's special ability, or of his own strong personal attachment to him, the employer has sometimes kept such a man at work long beyond a reasonable period."

c. 1939, AAWS, Alcoholics Anonymous, To Employers, p. 137. 

Prayer for the day:

"I pray that I may choose what is good for my soul.  I pray that I may realize God's purpose for my life."

c. 1975, Hazelden Foundation, Twenty-Four Hours A Day, June 8.

Quote for the day:

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."  __Bernice Johnson Reagon   (American historian and musician.  b. 1942) 

My share:

Challenges today prompt me to seek a creative solution, an equitable resolve.  How much better that is than ignoring or denying the challenge and to do nothing while pouring alcohol into an abyss.  Be Good To You, Dave