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bluidkiti · 09-22-2014, 07:12 AM

If You Want What We Have:
Sponsorship Meditations
By Joan Larkin

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Anyone can get sober…
The trick is to stay and to live sober.

LIVING SOBER

Newcomer
At one meeting someone mentioned having had a slip. He had been back in recovery for three days. No one criticized him; in fact, everyone applauded. To be honest, it makes me think about seeing what it would be like to have a few drinks or a drug again, just for a day or a weekend.

Sponsor
Over the years, I’ve watched people come and go in recovery. I’ve been grateful to the people who relapse and were lucky enough to come back and share their experiences. They taught me a lot by talking about how their disease had continued progressing even when they weren’t active in it, and about how much more quickly their misery had returned this time. I’m grateful to them for having had the slip for me; now I don’t have to risk it. There’s a danger in going back out to experiment with controlled using; few who leave ever make it back. This is a life-threatening disease. People like us, who depend on using an addictive substance, can die from it. We understand the seriousness of our addictions and have no need to test recovery by trying to use “safely.”

Today, I want life—all of it. I embrace my recovery; I stick close to those who know how to stay stopped.

09-22-2014, 07:12 AM	#66
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 71,197	If You Want What We Have: Sponsorship Meditations By Joan Larkin ----61---- Anyone can get sober… The trick is to stay and to live sober. LIVING SOBER Newcomer At one meeting someone mentioned having had a slip. He had been back in recovery for three days. No one criticized him; in fact, everyone applauded. To be honest, it makes me think about seeing what it would be like to have a few drinks or a drug again, just for a day or a weekend. Sponsor Over the years, I’ve watched people come and go in recovery. I’ve been grateful to the people who relapse and were lucky enough to come back and share their experiences. They taught me a lot by talking about how their disease had continued progressing even when they weren’t active in it, and about how much more quickly their misery had returned this time. I’m grateful to them for having had the slip for me; now I don’t have to risk it. There’s a danger in going back out to experiment with controlled using; few who leave ever make it back. This is a life-threatening disease. People like us, who depend on using an addictive substance, can die from it. We understand the seriousness of our addictions and have no need to test recovery by trying to use “safely.” Today, I want life—all of it. I embrace my recovery; I stick close to those who know how to stay stopped. __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.