September 19 in The Little Blue Book ONE DAY at a TIME in AL-ANON
September 19 in The Little Blue Book ONE DAY at a TIME in AL-ANON:
An AlAnon member with a particularly serious problem was told by another at a meeting: “I just wouldn’t put up with it!”
The answer came: “I am not, as you say, putting up with it. I am trying to correct my own faults, keep my mouth shut when I am tempted to yell and scream at him, and keep hands off his problems. You see, I never want to forget that I have a commitment to my husband. I want to live up to that commitment which I made, willingly and solemnly, when I married him.”
TODAY’S REMINDER
Any marriage made in expectation of lifelong bliss and freedom from care is bound to bring us to some shocking realizations that life just isn’t like that. An adult point of vie recognizes that alcoholism and its train of troubles is only one of the disasters that can happen to a marriage. We would face others with courage; why not this? The commitment to the person we married demands that we do everything we can to correct our problems. What to do, we learn in Al-Anon. How we use it is up to us.
“…in sickness and in health, for better or for worse…”