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May 1979

Becoming Aware

SERENITY WAS gone, and sobriety threatened to follow. After nearly three years of sobriety in AA, I recently became overwhelmed with physical and emotional problems. Luckily, I was attending a group formed to study the Twelve Steps. I had helped start this group and regarded myself as an old regular who had long since learned how to work the program. Yet here I was overcome by emotions out of control. What had I done wrong, that life was treating me so unfairly?

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