When The Rubber Hits The Road

From page 88 in the 12&12;

“Can we stay sober, keep in emotional balance, and live to good purpose under all conditions?”

I.E., when reality jumps up and says “hello” will we be grounded well enough in The Twelve Steps where we can call on our tools to help us go through whatever it is that life has to offer us, good or bad?

From today’s Daily Reflection;

“I have found that pain lets me know there is something wrong with my emotions, just as physical pain lets me know there is something wrong with my body. When I take appropriate action through the Twelve Steps, the pain gradually goes away.”

And… my oh my… do we hate pain eh?

Back to pgs. 74-75 in the 12&12;

“Our eyes began to open to the immense values which have come straight out of painful ego-puncturing. Until now our lives have been largely devoted to running from pain and problems. We fled from them as from a plague. We never wanted to deal with the fact of suffering. Escape via the bottle was always our solution… Then, in A.A., we looked and listened. Everywhere we saw failure and misery transformed by humility into priceless assets. We heard story after story of how humility had brought strength out of weakness. In every case, pain had been the price of admission into a new life.”

Suffer well…