"This is our twelfth suggestion: Carry this message to other alcoholics! You can help when no one else can. You can secure their confidence when other fail. Remember they are very ill. Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends-this is an experience you must not miss. We know you will not want to miss it. Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright spot of our lives. Perhaps you are not acquainted with any drinkers who want to recover. You can easily find some by asking a few doctors, ministers, priests or hospitals. They will be only too glad to assist you.
Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends-this is an experience you must not miss. We know you will not want to miss it. Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright spot of our lives. " (Reprinted with permission from pg 89 Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous)
Suggestions to consider:
1: Pray to the God of your understanding to remove the obsession to drink RIGHT NOW.
2: Call a newer member in recovery and listen to THEM! Don't tell them your troubles, just listen to them!(And then see if your problems don't look so big after all!)
3: Attend the service meetings at the Detox / Hospitals / Jails and the various Recovery Homes in your area.
4: Get involved with the various service structures of your Home Group at your next business meeting.
5: Finish your 9th step amends and start living on God's terms !
6: Click here for our Websites of Interest page and fill your brain with some new AA information.
7: Click on our our AA chat room right now and try talking to another AA member about your problem.
8: Read this from a fellow online chatter Today I picked up a chip....