“We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.” (Page 60, Big Book)
A few years into AA, I had the impression that things were
getting harder not easier. I looked back with nostalgia to my first couple of
years.
I was nine or so years sober but I was really one year sober
nine times over.
Being fourteen and in first grade for the ninth time,
especially when you’re not getting it, is no fun.
When I did ‘get it’, each year represented real progress on
the previous year, and I would not go back to any earlier stage of my recovery,
even three months ago.