It works if you work it

todAAy i AAM grAAteful & thAAnkful

that I have now gone 2000 days without drinking alcohol (well, it's a start!)

for Chapter 5 of Alcoholics Anonymous, which includes little statements like ...

• that we be convinced that any life run on self-will can hardly be a success


• each person is like an actor who wants to run the whole show


• our actor is self-centered


• Selfishness -- self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles.


• We had to quit playing god. It didn't work.


• We had a new employer.


• Relieve me of the bondage of self.


• Next we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step of which is a personal housecleaning.


• So we had to get down to causes and conditions.

There is, of course, much much more where this came from. These sentences are from pages 60-62 of The Big Book.


They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing.
-Hindu Proverb