Living the Slogans

In the beginning of my sobriety in 1987, the slogans of Alcoholics Anonymous meant little to this high-bottom, twenty-year-old alcoholic. Things were good; life was sweet--as long as I didn't drink. Those slogans were fine for some, and they sounded really good when I spoke them from the podium, but words to live by? I thought not. I was far too busy mapping out my life to "Let Go And Let God." In my defense, I was really good at practicing "First Things First", as long as it involved me being first. I was not a nay-sayer of the slogans of Alcoholics Anonymous, just ignorant of their meaning and power to comfort in times of difficulty.