Empty on the Inside p512-521

Good evening folks, 

What's that old saying? Better late than never? I had some excuses prepared but I figure I better save them for when I might need them!! This week, we'll be reading Empty on the Inside p512-521. BTW, someone mentioned to me they weren't finding the stories in the book so please take note that we're on the 4th Edition of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. The 3rd edition has a different set of stories (some are the same but some aren't). 

Anyways, I just got done reading this story and I liked it quite a bit. You could say this speaker had one of those Spiritual Awakenings of the "Educational variety". Sometimes I think that phrase might be a euphemism for "they were kind of slow to get it" lol Mind you, between the time I first came to AA and that moment when I had what you might call a spiritual awakening of my own, 5 years had gone by.... Now who is the slow one!!??     

It's good to remember that there is a reason why the promises are said to occur "sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly". So often I get frustrated by things not happening the way I wish they would.  Funny thing is I'm pretty sure my old-self would never have imagined I am where I am today -- not in a million years -- could you? At some point you'd think we would have figured out just how much our lives are influenced by things that are completely out of our control and say to ourselves "You know, I think that instead of paddling up-river today I'll give downriver a shot -- see what happens!!" or... As AA says it... Let Go & Let God

Best regards,

David t