Service

A wonton drinker
Hi there I’m Jack and I also am an alcoholic who drank wantonly and disastrously for 30 years. My rock bottom had to keep getting deeper and deeper the more I chased it.
At the very depths of my despair I came into contact with this wonderful fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous.
The way in which I was accepted was tremendous. The help, love and understanding was my prescription to a new and meaningful way of life. I attended meetings at the rate of seven per week. Slowly I learned to accept the fact that this would be the highest attainment in my life. It was, for 18 months. Then complacency set in which resulted in less and less meetings. Less, contact with AA members and that grand disillusionment, that I was now ready to carry on, myself.
Then the inevitable happened, I picked up my first drink again. Three years later and a very sick person, I once again prevailed upon AA. But this time, with a much different approach. You see, previously I grabbed all I could, as I was told that it was a selfish program. That suited me fine.
My big mistake was my failure to put something back into the program. But it’s a different story these days as I started my service in a very small way. Picking up and emptying ashtrays, sweeping the floor, washing up after supper, etc. It was humiliating to me, as I was a very prideful person. My stand by in those days was the slogan ‘small things first’.
As I progressed in AA so my service increased to the extent of a...

Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - November 27, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholism Recovery drinker rock bottom Source Type: blogs