The Importance of Being Grateful

WHEN one who has achieved sobriety under the AA way of life starts speaking of the one thing which has done more than all else to keep him sober, or the particular part of the program which means most to him, then we know that he is in the primary grades as far as the educational phase of AA is concerned. As his sobriety ripens he will come to a realization that the program is bigger than any individual and, except in the beginning when the individual is trying to get his first shaky grip on the life raft of AA, we must embrace the whole program hook, line and sinker. Else we will flunk out in the primary grades and will have to start over with a new "first day in school."