![]() Surprisingly, we found that our troubles could, under God’s grace, be converted into unimagined blessings. Here we learned that trouble was really a fact of life for everybody–a fact that had to be understood and dealt with. These mistaken attitudes, powered by alcohol, guaranteed our destruction, unless they were altered. Often, full of unreason, bitterness, and blame, we fought back. Or, in fear and in depression, we ran from it, but found it was still with us. “There was a time when we ignored trouble, hoping it would go away. Trouble: Constructive or Destructive?, p. I pray that I may keep going forward to the more abundant life. I pray that I may see the beautiful horizons ahead on the upward way. He gives you all the power you need, as long as you are moving along the upward way. You cannot make too many demands on Him for strength. On the upward way, you can have all the strength you need from that Higher Power. There is an amazing, almost incomprehensible understanding of the other person. There are tender intimacies in the quiet times of communion with God. There are wonderful discoveries in the realm of the spirit. Am I getting satisfaction out of living a sober life? You have the ambition to do things you didn’t feel like doing when you were drinking. The satisfaction you get out of living a sober life is made up of a lot of little things. As long as I put sobriety into my life, almost everything I take out is good. I feel right with the world, on the right side of the fence. I can describe it best as a kind of quiet satisfaction. Since I’ve been putting sobriety into my life, I’ve been taking out a lot of good things. The Fellowship of A.A., and God, are teaching me how to care about others. I never knew how to do this–or how to try. It is a new and exciting feeling for me to care for someone to care what they are feeling, hoping for, praying for to know their sadness, joy, horror, sorrow, grief to want to share those feelings so that someone can have relief. Today I feel that I can help people and that they can help me. The identification that one alcoholic has with another is mysterious, spiritual–almost incomprehensible. ![]() We recovered alcoholics are not so much brothers in virtue as we are brothers in our defects, and in our common strivings to overcome them.
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