This is story about a drunk that fell in a well and couldn't get out. A lawyer walked by the man in the well and asked, "What's wrong?" The man said, "I got drunk and fell in this well and can't get out. Can you help me?" The lawyer pulled out a business card and dropped it in the well. He said, "If you ever get a drunk driving, disorderly conduct, or any such thing I can help you." And then he walked off.
Then a doctor walked by the man in the well and asked, "What's wrong?" The man said,
"I got drunk and fell in this well and can't get out. Can you help me?" The doctor said, " you look very distressed, I can give you a prescription." So he wrote it out and dropped it in the well and walked away.
Then a minister walked by the man in the well and asked. "What's wrong?" The man said, "I got drunk and fell in this well and can't get out. Can you help me?" The minister said, "Well you look spiritually bankrupt. Why don't you kneel down and we'll say a prayer together." And they did. The minister gave him a blessing and walked off.
The man in the well was getting more depressed.
Then a recovering alcoholic walks by and asked, "What's wrong?" The man said, "I got drunk and fell in this well and can't get out. Can you help me?" Without hesitation the alcoholic jumps down in the well with him. The man said, "Are you crazy? Now we're both stuck down here!" And the alcoholic puts his arm around the man and said, "Don't worry my friend. I've been here before. I know the way out."
Be free again!
View These Blogs Too
About Me
- RussJ
- I am a lier, a cheat, and a thief! I suffer from alcoholism. I am a grateful friend of Bill W., and I've been sober for 29 years. The first three traits I mentioned above have been greatly curtailed as a result of my sobriety, but I am still a work in progress! In 1965 I joined the Trade Union and worked in construction as a sheet metal worker until 2008. My goal is to help others by sharing my experience, strength and hope in recovery.
This morning at 6 AM meeting, someone told the "well" story. I'm wondering if he read your blog before the meeting. Being an "old" guy, I have heard it long ago, but it's a good'un!
ReplyDeleteSOUND OF SOBRIETY
ReplyDeleteHello darkness, my old friend,
I’ve come to talk crap again,
An AA meeting softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the 12 STEPS that were planted in my brain, still remains
Within the sound of sobriety.
In restless meetings I walked alone
BILL WILSON CLONES, made of stone
Neath the halo of an OLD TIMER,
I turned my collar to the 1st and 3rd STEP
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of
A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
That split the night
And touched the sound of sobriety.
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand 12 STEPPERS, maybe more.
12 STEPPERS reading the BIG BOOK,
STEPPERS hearing without listening,
MARY CHRISTINE,
writing her 4TH STEP
KATHY LYNNE, doing her 5TH STEP
and no one dared
Disturb the sound of sobriety.
Steve said
ReplyDeleteAbout 80 people attended the Big Book meeting at 7. And when they asked for any "annuals" (meaning sober anniversaries) I got to tell them, "Yeah, ME! 35 years".
Prayer Girl, was sitting on the opposite....
...and she gave me a medallion,..
...God wasn't finished yet with making my Sober Anniversary number 35 the most memorable...
Next thing I knew, God wasn't finished yet with making my Sober Anniversary number 35 the most memorable...
How many of y'all have had "Happy Birthday" sung over the phone to you by the sweetest voice of Mary Christine?
Dear Steve,
You never once mentioned JESUS CHRIST in your ravings!
Your "babblings," were all about Steve, Steve, Steve....
John 8: 44 You are of your father the
devil, and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and he stood not in the truth; because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.
TWELVE STEPS AWAY FROM CHRIST
ReplyDeleteMr. Bill Wilson, who was heavily influenced by demons, was founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) and creator of the twelve-step program.
Chapter sixteen (p. 275f) of 'Pass It On' The Story of Bill Wilson and how the A.A. message reached the world records Mr. Wilson's use of the ouija board, participation in séances, psychic events, "spook sessions", table levitation, and how he would receive "messages" from "discarnate" spirits.
Bill Wilson was clearly in contact with demons, and this is the man who created the deceptive twelve-step program.
Make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him. (Step #11.) The last part of this statement ("as we understood Him") is enough to damn your soul! God says, Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.(Proverbs 3:5).
This is the exact opposite of "God as we understood Him." All men, according to Romans 1:18-32, are condemned before God, because they rely upon their own understanding (Romans 1:21; Ephesians 4:18, "having their understanding darkened"), and they create (in their own darkened minds) a god of their own making (Romans 1:23).
To encourage people to turn their "lives over to the care of God as we understood Him", is to encourage people to "turn their lives over to a god of their own making" (i.e. according to their own understanding).
This promotes nothing more than spiritual death (Revelation 22:15). In addition, these twelve steps are a deceitful attack against the saving work of the Lord Jesus Christ (i.e. they are against Christ, anti-Christ, 2 John 7; Colossians 2:8-10).
The twelve steps are (as Mr. Wilson used them) given as an answer (a way) in which one can overcome sin (with Mr. Wilson's case, the sin of drunkenness).
Jesus Christ is the ONLY answer for sin. He is the only way (John 14:6). There is only ONE "step", and that is faith in the Saviour (Ephesians 2:8/Matthew1:21/John 8:36/Romans10: 13!
The above exemplifies the "twelve steps" are what are used to "become free from addictive, compulsive" behaviour (i.e. sin). In other words, the twelve steps are the saviour!
No doubt it is deceptive, because "Biblical principles" are interwoven throughout; but if they weren't, few (if any) would be deceived. One good question to ask would be, "Where does Scripture talk about any 'twelve steps'"? The answer? Nowhere!
These twelve steps come from Satan (via Bill Wilson), who is the master deceiver (Revelation 12:9). Remember, SATAN used Scripture to tempt Christ (Matthew 4:6), and Balaam spoke much truth (Numbers 23-24); but he was a false prophet (2 Peter 2:15-16/Numbers 22).
In Matthew 7:13-14 Jesus warned, Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
Jesus likewise warned in Luke 13:24, Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
Mary Christine said
ReplyDeleteI later heard another someone with 30+ years of sobriety tell a newcomer that he "envied him the journey."
Dear Mary,
Sobriety is "meaningless," if one loses one's soul in the process.
It's not a competition, Miz Mary!
You never mention JESUS CHRIST in your POSTS - it's all about Mary Christine!
Satan - AA - is doing a pretty good job on you, Christine.
Keep telling the other BLOGGERS how wonderful you are & how grateful you are.
Your deluding them - BLOGGERS - but above all, your deluding yourself.
Tell them about your running, or how many hours sleep you had last night, etc, etc, etc....how boring!
John 3: 16 For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him, may not perish, but may have life everlasting.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world, but that the world may be saved by him.
Dear Russel,
ReplyDeleteIT WORKS IF YOU WORK IT!
I LOVE JESUS SO MUCH
ReplyDeleteI SHOULD NEVER HAVE ANY CAUSE OR REASON TO BE ASHAMED TO LOVE JESUS.
Is not the time coming, and the day hastening, when covetous men shall be ashamed of loving the world, and voluptuous men ashamed of loving their pleasures, and ambitious men ashamed of loving their honours?
For is it not a horrid shame, that a rational creature should be such a sot as to love sin which is most loathsome, and not to love Jesus who is most lovely? To love deformity, and not beauty?
Oh shame, shame! It is a shame that sin should have such esteem, and Jesus such great contempt put upon him.
But shame shall before long confound these now shameless wretches, when they shall cry out, "We are ashamed that we loved profits, and not Jesus- houses, lands, lusts, and not Jesus.
This is the confusion of our faces, and shame covers us-- that we should be so foolish, and so blind, that we had not sense, nor reason, to distinguish between sin, which is the greatest and most odious evil, and Jesus who is the greatest and most lovely good."
But the time will never come, the day will never be, that a gracious soul shall be ashamed of his sincere love to Jesus Christ.
Dear Russ,
ReplyDeleteAnother Sober Alcoholic, would like to make contact.
Dear Russ,
ReplyDeleteCHAINED STEPPER
Oh, BILL WILSON
My darling
I've hungered for your BIG BOOK
A long, lonely time
And AA goes by so slowly
And AA can do nothing much
Are you still insane?
I need your CULT
I need your CULT
BILL! speed your cult to me
Lonely STEPPERS flow
To the abyss, to the abyss
To the open arms of the abyss
Lonely STEPPERS sigh
Wait for me, wait for me
I'll be a WILSON CLONE
Wait for me!
Oh, BOB SMITH
My darling
I've hungered, hungered, for the STEPS
A long, lonely time
And “HOW IT WORKS” is rarely
seen as anything but crap
Are you still on wine?
I need you Doc!
I need your Doc!
Bob! “speed” your 'BILL' to me!!
Cheers!
Big Book
ReplyDelete"The Twelve Traditions" of A.A. are given in this same "Big Book." Note traditions one, two, five and six:
1. - Each member of Alcoholics Anonymous is but a small part of a great whole. A.A. must continue to live or most of us will surely die. Hence our common welfare comes first. But individual welfare follows close afterward.
2. - For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority - a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience.
5. - Each Alcoholics Anonymous group ought to be a spiritual entity having but one primary purpose - that of carrying its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
6. - Problems of money, property, and authority may easily divert us from our primary spiritual aim. (p. 565, italics in original)
For a non-religious organization to have a "primary spiritual aim" is oxymoronic.
Tradition number seven speaks of their "spiritual heritage" and number twelve reads,
12. - And finally, we of Alcoholics Anonymous believe that the principle of anonymity has an immense spiritual significance.
Indeed it does. The "immense spiritual significance" of "anonymity" is that they are walking in darkness, as it is written,
The fool walks in darkness. (Ecclesiastes 2:14)
They keep it anonymous, because they are evil and they do not want themselves and their evil deeds to be exposed, as it is written,
Everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. (John 3:20)
So, the second word in the name of the organization is "Anonymous," and this concept has an "immense spiritual significance ;" yet they are not a religious organization? You can believe that when pig meat is no longer pork.
Hey Russ, don't these people have anything better to do than call each other names at 5am.
ReplyDeleteOnce someone get's sober let them make there own decisions in regards to Jesus Christ. Anyone who is an alcoholic can attest to where this will lead. In the mean time we don't need people scaring the new comer into thinking we are something were not.
Dear George,
ReplyDeleteDo not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?(2 Corinthians 6:14) Repent, George!
Ah yes. comment moderation is required in blogland Im afraid. Your troll friend is a one off and behaves this way on any aa blog he finds. please continue posting as I like the well story :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for your blog! I was searching for a sober mom blog, hoping to find some support from someone I can idenfy with. I ran across your blog and was shocked by how much I get out of what you say. Thank you, I'll check in often. -Tonya
ReplyDeleteStarting the sober process ans seeking all sorts of support. Loving the comedy.
ReplyDeleteIt is a informative post , thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteThat is a great story or joke or whatever it was.
ReplyDelete