How Much "Time" Ya Got?

Here’s one for the folks who love to flash their sobriety medallions around – or who just cannot resist continuously mentioning their time credentials in meetings. It’s just one more reason that sobriety medallions don’t carry much weight around here. NEWS STORY

Here’s a guy who for all we know, just picked up a new protégée, because that newcomer thought it a good idea seeing “What he had” – and he wanted that too – thirteen years sober and a good job. How scuhroowed might that newcomer be now? Just a thought.

Now, is it likely that he was working with others? Well . . . . eh . . . I don’t know – you can come to your own opinion on that. I do know that, “Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking a intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail. This is our twelfth suggestion: Carry this message to other alcoholics!”(89:0)

And that means only one thing: Working with others in teaching and practicing the twelve steps.

It’s nice to be able to handle a knife and fork – – but HAVE WE EATEN LUNCH YET?

This poor fellow must have been starving! It would do good to keep his well-being and perhaps future recovery in our thoughts – and perhaps someone reading this – who may know him – could get the “THIS” message to him.

I would much rather be sponsored by someone with a year or less sobriety “time” who has recovered and practices these principles some someone with thirty years of sobriety “time” and has yet to recover (“still recovering”)

The former would be one of my AA HEROES – the latter – just another hard drinking dry fool.

Peace,

Danny S

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How Much "Time" Ya Got?

Here’s one for the folks who love to flash their sobriety medallions around – or who just cannot resist continuously mentioning their time credentials in meetings. It’s just one more reason that sobriety medallions don’t carry much weight around here. NEWS STORY

Here’s a guy who for all we know, just picked up a new protégée, because that newcomer thought it a good idea seeing “What he had” – and he wanted that too – thirteen years sober and a good job. How scuhroowed might that newcomer be now? Just a thought.

Now, is it likely that he was working with others? Well . . . . eh . . . I don’t know – you can come to your own opinion on that. I do know that, “Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking a intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail. This is our twelfth suggestion: Carry this message to other alcoholics!”(89:0)

And that means only one thing: Working with others in teaching and practicing the twelve steps.

It’s nice to be able to handle a knife and fork – – but HAVE WE EATEN LUNCH YET?

This poor fellow must have been starving! It would do good to keep his well-being and perhaps future recovery in our thoughts – and perhaps someone reading this – who may know him – could get the “THIS” message to him.

I would much rather be sponsored by someone with a year or less sobriety “time” who has recovered and practices these principles some someone with thirty years of sobriety “time” and has yet to recover (“still recovering”)

The former would be one of my AA HEROES – the latter – just another hard drinking dry fool.

Peace,

Danny S

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