For Today:
“Practicing A.A.’s remaining eleven Steps means the adoption
of attitudes and actions that almost no alcoholic who is still
drinking can dream of taking. Who wishes to be rigorously
honest and tolerant? Who wants to confess his faults to
another and make restitution for harm done? Who cares
anything about a Higher Power, let alone meditation and
prayer? Who wants to sacrifice time and energy in trying
to carry A.A.’s message to the next sufferer? No, the average
alcoholic, self-centered in the extreme, doesn’t care for this
prospect – unless he has to do these things in order to stay
alive himself.”
12 Steps & 12 Traditions, pg. 24
Step One
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