Hard Seats & Cold Feet

Recently I have sat in our Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and asked myself, why am I here? The chairs are hard, it’s very cold and I am physically uncomfortable. Later, I have a thirty mile drive home in an old unheated car and being an old man, I’ll have difficulty getting out and in to that fire I know will be there. Why then, do I suffer it? The answer begins in a day in May 1963 in a hospital in Perth, W.A. where I was very sick with the disease of alcoholism. A man is standing at the foot of my bed “Believe you have a problem,” he says, and I admitted the truth a big problem, beyond me to solve. Next day he came back, sat on the side of my bed and simply told me the story of his own failure and ultimate triumph with the help of AA. The writer of the AA pamphlet “A Members Eye View” says this “I am personally convinced that the basic search of every human being, from the cradle to the grave, is to find at least one other human being before whom he can stand completely naked, stripped of all pretence or defence, and trust that other person not to hurt him, because that other person has stripped himself naked, too. This lifelong search can begin to end with the first AA encounter. This was so with me. Instead of the pounding of morally superiority this is what you should do type, I heard a gentle ‘This is what I did.” I never drank again and please God, I never will. In AA I found for me a totally new concept of life. My emotional l...
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