Page 164 of the big book of Alcoholics
Anonymous is the last page of directions on how to work the AA program of
recovery. That is followed another 400
pages of personal stories and appendices beginning with Dr Bob’s Nightmare—which is the story of how AA co-founder Dr Bob
Smith of Akron Ohio got sober.
Our book is meant to
be suggestive only. We realize we know only a little. God will constantly
disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can
do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come, if your own house
is in order. But obviously you cannot transmit something you haven't got. See
to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to
pass for you and countless others. This is the Great Fact for us.
Abandon yourself to
God as you understand God. Admit your faults to Him and to your fellows. Clear
away the wreckage of your past. Give freely of what you find and join us. We
shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some
of us as you trudge the Road of Happy Destiny.
May God bless you
and keep you - until then.
I struggle with depression, obesity and other health care issues in my
journey on the road of happy destinies.
Nonetheless, I continue to trudge along.
I am grateful to be where I am at today. My basic needs of food, shelter, clean water
and good relationships are all met. My
biggest problem is my own best thinking.
The 12-step solution for that is a better relationship with a power
greater than myself that many choose to call god. I know that my solutions to my problems tend
to result in abject misery. I am blessed
to know and believe in better alternatives.
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