Call someone before you drink so they can help you stay sober, call after you drink and help them stay sober.
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE 12 STEPS?
1. To help us discover and establish a conscious relationship with a Power greater than ourselves.
2. To help us improve our conscious relationship with a Power greater than ourselves.
3. To produce the personality change necessary for our recovery.
4. To provide a design for living - that can help us be happy, comfortable, and at ease, living an enjoyable life of purpose, with peace and harmony with ourselves, with others, and with God as we understand Him, growing in understanding and effectiveness, serving and helping others -without the use of alcohol or other drugs.
The precise instructions for taking the 12 Steps are contained in the book, Alcoholics Anonymous.
“To show other alcoholics precisely how we have recovered is the main purpose of this book.” Alcoholics Anonymous page XIII, paragraph 1, line 4
We been trying to get a new attitude, a new relationship with our Creator, and to discover the obstacles in our path.
Alcoholics Anonymous, page 72, paragraph 2, line 2
A priest was having a heart-to-heart talk with a lapsed member of his flock, whose drinking of cheap cask wine invariably led to quarreling with his neighbors, and occasional shotgun blasts at some of them. “Can’t you see, Ben,” intoned the parson, “that not one good thing comes out of this drinking?” “Well, I sort of disagree there,” replied the drunk. “It makes me miss people I shoot at.”
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