Why is it that the alcoholic is so unwilling to accept responsibility? I used to drink because of the things that other people did to me. Once I came to A.A. I was told to look at where I had been wrong. What did I have to do with all these different matters? When I simply accepted that I had a part in them, I was able to put it on paper and see it for what it was - humanness. I am not expected to be perfect! I have made errors before and I will make them again. To be honest about them allows me to accept them - and myself - and those with whom I had the differences; from there recovery was just a short distance ahead.
Step 7
Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Daily Reflections-April 3
ACCEPTING OUR HUMANNESS We finally saw that the inventory should be ours, not the other woman's. So we admitted our wrongs honestly, and became willing to set these matters straight. - AS BILL SEES IT, p. 222
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I've discovered behaviors in myself recently that are unacceptable to me. The mistakes are not unacceptable - but failing to take responsibility is. This reading offers so much hope to me because it helps me to see that as long as I take responsibility, than I can be in recovery! I don't have to beat myself up about not being perfect but I do have to take responsibility for all my actions so I can be free - and useful to God, myself and others.
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