Like many alcoholics, I spent decades changing my goals to match my behavior.  Getting fired from a job took me past the tipping point, where I could no longer deny that I didn’t need to do anything about my problems.  I say “problems” rather than just “problem,” because I know now that I couldn’t blame my drinking for…

A paragraph from the “We Agnostics” chapter of the book Alcoholics Anonymous tells the reader: “Lack of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. Obviously. But where and how were we to find this Power?” This is precisely where The Big…