View Single Post
Old 06-19-2017, 09:07 AM
  # 6 (permalink)  
Gottalife
12 Step Recovered Alcoholic
 
Gottalife's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 6,613
We talk about being beyond human aid in AA. My sponsor had a saying " people have feet of clay" What it means is that all things human will eventually fail us. It happened this week. Turned up at a group meeting. It wasn't there. The group had closed. Couldn't rely on them being there if I needed them. Called an AA friend but he wasn't home. The internet was down so I couldn't get to sr at that time. Sponsor died, so he can't be reached. And my memory was well,known to be completely ineffective at certain times, as a defence.

I'm sure you get the idea. It is in the abcs. Probably no human power could relieve our alcoholism, and even the most dedicated humans cannot be there 24/7, without fail when we need them, and always say or do exactly the right thing to save us. It is just impossible. But god could and would if he were sought. That is where my 24/7 defence comes from, and it has been totally reliable.
Gottalife is offline