A Reading on "A New Life" Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only
a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening. If more
gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find
that bit by bit we can discard the old life-the one that did not work-for a new
life that can and does work under any conditions whatever. Regardless of worldly success or failure, regardless of pain or joy, regardless of sickness or health or even of death itself, a new life of endless possibilities can be lived if we are willing to continue our awakening, through the practice of A.A.'s Twelve Steps. From As Bill Sees It, page 8 Copyright®1967 Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. |
