Knowing I’m not alone, it was part and parcel of the deal – from today’s reading;
Didn’t We Hurt Anybody?
“Some of us, though, tripped over a very different snag. We clung to the claim that when drinking we never hurt anybody but ourselves.”
Wow, were we ever self-centered??? Yet, that was what I believed and it was the point! Though I wasn’t up to task. When the time came (and it did often) I couldn’t pull the final “plug.” Thank God…
“My parents, who had been deeply hurt by my isolation from them, my employer, who worried about my absences, my memory lapses, …read more

No, this is not about a bar fight anymore…
And it will eliminate the “easier, softer way” the Internet offers.
“When listing the people we have harmed, most of us hit another solid obstacle. We got a pretty severe shock when we realized that we were preparing to make a face-to-face admission of our wretched conduct to those we had hurt.”
I love the way Bill calls things – “wretched conduct.” He pulls no punches with his words.
“It had been embarrassing enough when in confidence we had admitted these things to God, to ourselves, and to another human being.”
I’d wonder about that. Was …read more