August 21, 2026 - Open Minded

My thought for today is open-minded. This always reminds me of Step Two, that it is possible for me to recover from alcoholism if I do not close my mind to spiritual principles. For many years, my mind was closed. As a boy, I went to to church and to sunday school, I tried to follow the Ten Commandments, I did all the things we're supposed to do to live by God's will. When I was twelve, I joined a street gang and drifted away from Church. I was gone for some fifty years and by the time I got here I did not believe in God, I did not want to believe in God and I didn't care if you believed in God as long as you did your believing someplace else other than where I was. As I sat in meetings, I saw that those who chose to believe in a Power greater than themselves were getting better, they had nice jobs and nice homes, and nice families, and those of us who chose not to believe, well quite frankly, we had nothing. So, I saw my only option was to open my mind to whatever it was they were doing, to at least be willing to believe there was a Power greater than me, and to do as I thought He would want me to do. And guess what. I have been sober for three decades,  and when I woke up this morning I looked around at all the things I knew I would never have again, and I am in awe.