August 2010

Our cover picture this month is of the climb leading to the summit of Beinn Ghlas above Loch Tay in the Scottish Highlands. No doubt many people have climbed those well trodden steps and experienced that wonderful sense of achievement when they reached the summit.

We, recovering alcoholics, are not much different from those climbers as we reach our own summit in sobriety. We have our own well trodden and successful Twelve Steps of recovery and progressing through the Steps is our symbol of sobriety. When we set out on our journey of sobriety, we are advised to get a sponsor and keep to the path we are guided on, as to stray from it could prove dangerous to our sobriety. We are asked to progress slowly but surely.

These Steps have stood the test of time and have been the means of sobering hundreds of thousands of alcoholics. Everything we require for a new and better life is contained in the Twelve Steps.

Recovering alcoholics need only to read, think about and apply these Steps daily and they will be safe. We are taught to live our lives ‘one day at a time’ and the application of the Steps will keep us sober as we work them into our daily lives.

PS: The Editorial team are pleased to welcome back, in this issue, GB with his feature ‘That Was the Week that Was’ as we know it was sorely missed by a lot of our readers.