the Desire To Change

 A lot of people say that AA is for Alcoholics, but that is not quite accurate.  AA if for people who want to stop drinking.  So it is an action program on a daily basis, since that is the way many of them drank.  It is not about having a title, an identity, “Alcoholic.”  I meet a lot of people who do have a title but have no action. A person says, “I am a Catholic.”  But their ‘actions” seem no different from someone who does not have that title.  You get baptized and now you are a “Christian.”  But then no action.  I am not much for religion or recovery that is without action.  Since I tend to be a forgetter or one who lives on yesterday’s action, I need to be vigilant on a daily basis.  Saying, “I am a priest,” but no action is pitiful.