Attitude – Lifetime Job
June 23, 2008 by Mark
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
From page 65 in the 12&12;
“So Step Six – ‘Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character’ – is A.A.’s way of stating the best possible attitude one can take in order to make a beginning on this lifetime job.”
Think about this for a moment. It says this is a “lifetime job.” Job certainly does more than imply this will be work. Ought we think that God will be doing the work? I don’t think so, after all, God don’t row!
Nope…
“This does not mean that we expect all our character defects to be lifted out of us as the drive to drink was. A few of them may be, but with most of them we shall have to be content with patient improvement. The key words ‘entirely ready’ underline the fact that we want to aim at the very best we know or can learn.”
Oh heck, there we go, learning again…
T.I.M.E. = Things I Must Earn? Things I Must Endure? Or – “What keeps everything from happening at once.”
Time takes time. One day at a time.
Heard someone at a meeting once say something along the lines of “If I wanted patience, I would have become a Doctor.” (sic)
Hey Mark!
I just got off the phone with Comcast, so patience, or lack thereof, is on my mind. Imagine that.
Today (in my mind) patience is the ability to accept the inevetable – I will not get what I want when I want it – EVER. NEVER. Urgh.
Case in point: (short version) I want my digital cable service discontinued, as it does not work properly. It does not work properly because my account is past due. (My bad.) I’m annoyed by this, so I call back to cancel the DC service. I was told the following….wait for it…..
I cannot DOWNGRADE my service until my account it current. Like OMG!!!
It sure would be nice to just ONCE get what I want when I want it. GEEZ.
Thanks for letting me share.
Btw, I like your site. Bet your butt’s nice too.
R.I.P. George Carlin.
Hmmm? Um, lemme think… ummm Ever? Never? I will not get what I want? Hmmmm.
Reminds me of a place in the BB where it used to say something about learning to distinguish between my wants and my needs.
Oh – - yeah, about my butt…
You’d hafta talk with my ex… hmmmm – noooo – you’d hafta talk with my other “ex.” Hmmmm, noooo,
Jacci? Naaaahh… (j/k Jax)
Ohhhh – never mind… lol