"Helping Slippers"

[janbear]

Why do they have to suffer? Why is it that we have found and accepted this fellowship while some people seem unable to or else must experience untold hardships before they can accept it? Many times our hearts have ached at the seeming failure of Twelth Step work.

We watch others suffer needlessly and sometimes die. We watch others repeatedly slip and our hearts cry out to them. Those of us who make it must never give up on the ones who don't. They need us desperately and we need them. Even if they truly can't make it, God still loves them.

Do I leave the results of my Twelfth step work with my Higher Power?

-Day by Day

[free2bunme]

this is a good message for me to read right now. i am a little bit nervous, as i am meeting a friend who has been a chronic slipper before tonight's meeting for coffee. he is just out from a six month stint in rehab, his 3rd time. he has been in and out of the program for years and has never gained more than 7 months freedom from his addiction to crack. in all honesty, i don't fully believe that he will make it. but i feel like i need to act as if i do.