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[Ann]

Daily Reflections - April 9

FREEDOM FROM "KING ALCOHOL"

. . . let us not suppose even for an instant that we are not under
constraint. . . . Our former tyrant, King Alcohol, always stands ready
again to clutch us to him. Therefore, freedom from alcohol is the
great "must" that has to be achieved, else we go mad or die.
As Bill Sees It, p. 134

When drinking, I lived in spiritual, emotional, and sometimes, physical
confinement. I had constructed my prison with bars of self-will and
self-indulgence, from which I could not escape. Occasional dry spells
that seemed to promise freedom would turn out to be little more than
hopes of reprieve. True escape required a willingness to follow
whatever right actions were needed to turn the lock. With that
willingness and action, both the lock and the bars themselves opened
for me. Continued willingness and action keep me free--in a kind of
extended daily probation--that need never end.

[lanie67]

Self-will and self-indulgence sound like my life right now. I am sober, but my eating is out of wack and I am showing signs of type 2 diabetes. It truly is a prison. I love the reminder about willingness and action. When I don't have the willingness and action, I feel that I am standing still. What I realize now is that I am not standing still at all, I am regressing. A sponsor of mine told me 'either you are moving forward or you are moving backwards'. I think it is true about the daily probation, but sometimes I don't have the courage necessary to take the action. Okay alot of times. But I need to pray about it and then just do it.