My AA birthday has just passed. Another year sober, and another year of spiritual maintenance.
“A business that does not do a regular inventory goes broke,” as Bill Wilson suggests in the Big Book.
Andy Crooks writing as Andy C
The AA Program is a process, not an event. And processes involve sequences of steps. And steps can be both systematized and habituated; both of these, systematization and habituation, are useful qualities in my Program. Habituation of many of the AA principles has been an essential part of my Program and concomitant spiritual development. Habits of thought and action have led to change. And systematization of the Steps has been an important addition to the other practices of the Program such as meetings and 12 Step work.
Heard at a recent meeting: “With inventories and amends, we are unwinding our personal histories.”
I see in my mind’s eye a powerful metaphor in the word ‘unwinding.’
I see myself with a ball of string, my life in my hands, unwinding it. It is my life, and the string is the thread and narrative of my story.