Sponsor and inventory says... am Self will run riot, but I dont really think so

So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making.
They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme
example of self-will run riot, though he usually doesn´t think so. P62


Just for today on the outside its all going
absolutely fabulous
on the inside .....Inspite of feeling really grateful
and willing and loving AA and everything

I walked round with this very thin suit of armour
and I didnt really know I had it on... until an hour ago

I want it all to go my way
I want perfection
I know best
I know how it all should be done
I am setting up rules
I am comparing

I forgot I am working with sick people (like me)
Though we did not like their symptoms and the way these
disturbed us, they, like ourselves, were sick too. P67

I forgot I am not working with mindless robots
I didnt realise peoples how different we behave
I forgot peoples sobriety doesnt depend on me

Job or no job-wife or no wife-we simply do not
stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon
other people ahead of dependence on God. P98

I forgot other people are very different to me
I forgot I dont have all the answers
I forgot people have the freedom to chose
I forgot I am not always right
I forgot how fearbased my actions were
I forgot how afraid of calling my Sponsor/s I am/was/can be
I forgot how scary embarking on the steps is
I forgot what unmanagable I was
I forgot how much my thoughts ruled my actions
I forgot how confused I was
I forgot how it is to be new
I forgot where I came from

Its not enough to be grateful and pass it on
Its about walking in someone elses shoes

I forgot, just exactly how unmanageable and out of control
I actually was
Will I ever actually know
I dont think so
What I think I was like as a newcomer
Is not how it actually was
I forget

I was
Unmamangeable
Flakey
Scared
Crippled by fear and self pity
Very willing
very unteacheable
very willing
very unteacheable
like a time bomb
could have gone off at anytime
High maintenence
Will ring you
Leave me alone, but dont leave me

Welcome to the world of Sponsorship Johno
Sponsees are not clones dude

I am grateful to be asked to be a sponsor
I now need a clone
I cant Sponsor everyone

I wannit, I dont wannit

Sponsor said
Sounds like your need to cut her some slack
Sounds like self will....
Johno said....I dont think your understanding what am saying
God said... Shut up and listen and you'll hear she does !!

I just reverted into a control freak
Impatient, intolerent, self righteous
judgemental

But to look and hear me you would have no idea
Gods own Angel, with a sulk on

Thank God I tried to speak with my Sponsor
The real me appeared in 5minutes
Cut through that thin but strong layer Self Will
It dont take long to build up
Even when I dont think am making much sense
Even when she dont appear to get me
She is
Its me thats not listening

I look at the differences in Sponsors
Me Myself and I
I am quick to THINK am not understood
I am quick to THINK she has got NO IDEA
I am quick to THINK i know best
I am quick to THINK I am sure
Naturally Of course I THINK i need to find a new sponsor
see how my problem is in my head ?

Wheres the good news in this post ?
Good news is
I have only sulked for an hour and a half
in which time I took the train journey home and wrote this post
I see how all this is really Just for today
I see how quickly I forget how bad actually it was
on a day to day basis as a newcomer
I see how judgemental and impatient I have been this week
I see how quickly I can become unteacheable
I see how my thinking COULD lead to....
destruction of personal relations, isolation
I see how destructive self will & arrogance
self centredness & intolerence can be
If not outwardly, inwardly to me
I see how my first thoughts cannot always be trusted
I must pay attention tho

I must pray more
Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness. We must, or it kills us! God makes that possible. And there often seems no way of entirely getting rid of self without His aid. P62

Ok enough, am not going to sit and edit
this is me today, imperfect

Friday night is here again
Heres the T-shirt
None for sale



am off to bed. at 6.30am Saturday 4th of August
I will have been breathing for 40 years
Grateful or what
4 years ago, I didnt think I would make it to 40
now am gonna experience every second this weekend
in a 4th dimension that I could only have dreamed


Yeh I feel somewhat disgruntled that this eve
Realised I could do better

We were prepared to look for it from an entirely different angle. P66

We realized that the people who wronged us were perhaps spiritually sick. P66

I come to a grinding halt
But then THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER!!
its true I am a thing and I will try to do better

Going to bed for the last time aged 39........zzzzzzzz

"God, I offer myself to Thee-to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life. May I do Thy will always!" P63

humbly Yours

Johno