The Worst is Yet to Come
Sexy Drunk Christians: Chapter 2 The Depravity of Twelve Step Christianity Part 11
Take the cotton out of your ears, put it in your mouth, and keep coming back!
Following these directives, the luckiest, you, sit in meeting after meeting, listening to AAs share their experience, strength, and hope, especially the gurus or Oldtimers, but anyone with more than a year of sobriety. You listen as the wise men relate the journey from hopeless boozer banging at Hell’s gate to the Nirvana-like, magical land of sobriety where gratitude abounds for the genericized Christian God who saved him when he sat right where you sit now.
So clear the answer appears now, not easy, but clear, having heard the requirement to ask God to save you. You leave the meeting, as you have many times, but this time fed up with your incessant drinking, embarrassment, and other issues, you ask the Christian-lite God to free you from the addiction. He answers, evidenced by your newfound ability to fight withdrawal stress and continue AA attendance.
A miracle!
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