Quote:
December 5
Those Who Want To Recover
"We have seen the program work for any addict who honestly and sincerely wants to stop [using drugs]"
Basic Text pg. 10
How do we know when someone honestly and sincerely wants to stop using drugs? The truth is that we don't know! Because we cannot read minds or know another's motives and desires, we simply have to hope for the best. We may talk to a newcomer at a meeting and think we'll never see them again, only to find them several years later doing well in their recovery. We may be tempted to give up on someone who keeps relapsing or doesn't get clean right away, but we must not. No matter how unwilling someone may seem, a simple fact remains - the addict is at a meeting.
We may never know the results of our Twelfth Step work; it is not up to us to gauge the willingness of a newcomer. The message we carry is a part of us. We carry it everywhere and share it freely, leaving the results to a Power greater than ourselves.
Just for today: I will share my recovery with any addict, anywhere, anytime, and under any circumstances. I will leave the results to my Higher Power.
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My sponsor told me to not waste my time and energy on those who were ot willing to recover and work the program, to watch for those who were looking for attention, who knew how the program worked but were not wiling to go to any length to work it for themselves. They wanted me to do it for them and figured they could ride on my shirt tails (ex-boyfriend) and when I detached, left the AA group and went to NA, he got another girlfriend and relapsed. I share the message, what they do with it is not up to me. People have to find what is right for them, and if they are not willing to do so, they can follow by the way side. My story also translated to CA, yet it is applicable only if you apply it.