But as sick, compulsive people, we sometimes view every disturbance as a terrible storm and become panicky or enraged over things that are of little consequence in the long run. Many things that happen to us each day are no more important than the routine turbulence and aircraft encounters. Even more significant is the pilot’s calm indifference to these minor movements as he checks occasionally to make sure the plane continues on the right course.
When riding in an airplane on automatic pilot, I marvel at the way the aircraft stays on course even while bouncing and shaking through pockets of turbulence. We daily see such members render prodigies of service, and receive great joys in return. They can participate in enterprises which would be denied to family men and women. In partnership with others–women and men–they can devote themselves to any number of ideas, people, and constructive projects. friends, the so-called loners tell us they no longer feel alone. Yes– whenever they try hard to seek out these satisfactions. offer them satisfactions of similar worth and durability? If they cannot have this kind of happiness, can A.A. members who, for a variety of reasons, cannot have a family life? At first many of these feel lonely, hurt, and left out as they witness so much domestic happiness about them. I pray that I may get into that stream of goodness in the world. I pray that I may live the way God wants me to live. I must believe in God and continually work at strengthening my faith. All our doubts arrest God’s work through us. We all have much to learn in turning out fear by faith. It will never fail me, but I must learn not to fail it by my doubts and fears. Doubts lead me astray, because I am not trusting God. My doubts and fears continually drive me back into the wilderness. I must trust God to the best of my ability. Do I realize that my job, my family and my real friends are dependent upon my sobriety? We have friends in A.A., real friends who are always ready to help us. Most of us have families, wives and children, which either we had lost or might have lost, if we hadn’t stopped drinking. We know we couldn’t hold these jobs if we were drinking, so our jobs depend on our sobriety. Most of us have jobs, which we owe to our sobriety. Sobriety to us is like good-will in business. That’s the biggest asset on any alcoholic’s books. Now we can take an inventory of the good things that have come to us through A.A. Quickly or not so quickly, I grow toward His image and likeness. As I come to know more about God, I am able to trust His ways and His plans for the development of His character in me. It is through the continuous work of the Steps and the life in the Fellowship that I’ve learned to see that there is truly a better way into which I am being guided. … this means a belief in a Creator who is all power, justice, and love a God who intends for me a purpose, a meaning, and a destiny to grow, however… haltingly, toward His own likeness and image.Īs I began to understand my own powerlessness and my dependence on God, as I understand Him, I began to see that there was a life which, if I could have it, I would have chosen for myself from the beginning.
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