September 29

“WE are not bad people trying to be good. WE are sick people trying to get well.” – Overheard in a meeting

Maybe you’ve heard this a thousand times. Maybe you’re just as tired of hearing it as I am, but it doesn’t make it any less true. It’s one of those things that you hear in the rooms of recovery, and nobody knows where it came from, but it always rings true. There are as many different types of alcoholics/addicts as there are people in the world. Conmen, thieves, liars, assholes, etc. But there are also policemen, clergy, doctors, teachers, and the occasional nun or priest. We are varied individuals from all walks of life that just happen to have been afflicted by the disease of addiction and alcoholism. Whether you are from a good home with loving parents or a dysfunctional home with mental illness and severe addiction, your background makes no difference in the halls of recovery. We know only that you know up close the face of “Terror, Bewilderment, Frustration, and Despair.”

Reflections

Have you met the hideous Four Horsemen yet?

Daily Challenge

Find the “hideous Four Horsemen” quote in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. Highlight it.