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“ Self-will run riot “ HELP !!
Most of us have been unwilling to admit we were real alcoholics. No person likes to think he is bodily and mentally different from his fellows. Therefore, it is not surprising that our drinking careers have been characterized by countless vain attempts that somehow, someday we will control and enjoy our drinking is the real obsession of every abnormal drinker. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue it into the gates of insanity or death. We alcoholics are men and women who have lost the ability to control our drinking. We know that no real alcoholic ever recovers control. All of us felt at times that we were regaining control, but such intervals – usually brief – were inevitably followed by still less control, which led in time to pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization.
We need to ask ourselves but one short question. “Do I now believe, or am I even willing to believe, that there is a power greater than myself?” Remember that we deal with alcohol – cunning, baffling, powerful ! Without help it is too much for us. But there is One who has all power – that One is God. May you find him now !
Selfishness – self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt.
The alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run riot, though he usually doesn’t think so. Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness. We must, or it kills us! God makes that possible. And there often seems no way of entirely getting rid of self without His aid. Many of us had moral and philosophical convictions galore, but we could not live up to them up to them even though we would have liked to. Neither could we reduce our self-centeredness (or Alcoholism) much by wishing or trying on our own power. We had to have God’s help.
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He would come to oblivion and the awful awakening to face Horror, Despair, Terror & Bewilderment.
His disposition while drinking resembles his normal nature but little.
He is a real Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
He is seldom mildly intoxicated.
He is always more or less insanely drunk.
At some stage of his drinking career he begins to lose all control of his liquor consumption, once he starts to drink.
He is the fellow who goes to bed so intoxicated he ought to sleep the clock around. Yet early next morning he searches madly for the bottle he misplaced the night before.. If he can afford it, he may have liquor concealed all over his house to be certain no one gets his entire supply away from him to throw down the wastepipe.
He begins to appear at hospitals & sanitariums.
He frequently becomes disgustingly & even dangerously anti-social.
The very simple program they advised me to follow was that I should ask to know God’s will for me for that one day, and then to the best of my ability, to follow that, and at night to express my gratefulness to God for the things that had happened to me during the day.
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