Saturday December 13, 2025

Thought of the day
  "The purpose of a searching and fearless moral inventory is to sort through the confusion and contradiction of our lives so that we can find out who we really are."  

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 Many of us have been "thirty-day wonders." We were desperate and dying when we showed up at our first meeting. We identified with the alcoholics and the  addicts we met there and the message they shared. With their support, we were finally able to stop using and catch a free breath. For the first time in a long, long time, we felt at home. Overnight, our lives were transformed; we walked, talked, ate, drank, slept, and dreamed the 12 steps and program.

  We can use the Fourth Step inventory to see past the needs of the old life and find out who we want to be today. Writing about our behavior and noticing how we feel about that behavior helps us understand who we want to be. Our inventory helps us see beyond the demands of active addiction, beyond our desire to be loved and accepted-we find out who we are at the root. We begin to understand what's appropriate for us, and what we want our lives to be like. This is the beginning of becoming who we really are.  .

We're going to practice living our program like our lives depend on it, because they do.  
 

Committment for the Day

  If I want to find out who I am, I'll look at who I've been and who I want to be.  

One Day At A Time