[Sheryl85]

I know exactly what you are talking about. I too hadn’t realized just how important it was about the working 100% part of that step until I had reached year 13. A couple of years later after suffering through a serious near miss at going back out a gentleman at a meeting in San Antonio nodded his head in understanding and asked, “How wide was your dash?” At first I didn’t understand what he meant until I remembered that Step One is written in two parts separated by a dash. His meaning became clear. I had forgotten the second part of that step and thought that I was once again in control of my life. As it turned out, I could admit that I was powerless over alcohol but the gulf had widened between that admission and the fact that my life was still unmanageable by me.

Today my dash is small. It now separates only two facets of my illness which has but a single solution…that God could and would relieve me from a hopeless state of mind and body which had held me captive in the bonds of alcohol if I only ask for His grace.

Thank God sanity returned before it was too late and I started working the "100% solution" once again on a daily basis.