We Can Cruise Past Icebergs on Fellow-Ship
I lo ok forward to going to an A.A. meeting an hour from now. One thing I enjoy is the fellow ship. It's like church is supposed to be but too often isn't. I no longer have support from work colleagues; I was laid off and the company was sold. I'm not a "joiner" and so have no Moose or Elks or Brotherhood of the Beavers for companionship. I'm too poor for the country club. Thank goodness for A.A. We need others to heal, and then to stay healed. My guru, Rick Warren in The Purpose-Driven Life , advises, "If you're losing the battle against a persistent bad habit, an addiction, a temptation, and you're stuck in a repeating cycle of good intention-failure-guilt, you will not get better on your own! You need the help of other people." ( http://purposedriven.com/books/pdlbook/ ) "...stuck in a repeating cycle of good intention-failure-guilt." I like that description. That tells exactly how it felt when I found myself in a pattern ...