Mitchell Alan Paddock

The Promises Mitchell Alan Paddock

I have struggled with alcoholism and addiction for nearly over 50 years and I had searched the corners of the earth for the solution to my living hell. Yet, the solution to my malady was right in front of me. As Bill W. wrote in Bill's Story, "But my friend sat before me, and he made the point-blank declaration that God had done for him what he could not do for himself. His human will had failed. Doctors had pronounced him incurable. Society was about to lock him up. Like myself, he had admitted complete defeat. Then he had, in effect, been raised from the dead, suddenly taken from the scrap heap to a level of life better than the best he had ever known!" Bill goes on to write, "Most of us feel we need look no further for Utopia. We have it with us right here and now." (BB p.16). Yes, I have found the solution to my alcoholism, my living hell, my malady. I have found my "heaven on earth" - The Fellowship of AA! If I learned one thing in my lifetime it is that wisdom is not the art of intelligence, it is the art of living. Life is not an endgame, there is not a finish line - life is an infinite journey!