Hi family! I'm Steve, and I'm danged grateful to be sober tonight. Love myself? Nope. I didn't have any self-love at all when I got here. I didn't want any. What happened for me was that I started the work of AA Fellowship with a little service work and a lot of prayer. By the way -- trying to pray IS praying. I started cleaning up the wreckage of my past. I made amends AFTER my sponsor looked them over. We went to 3 to 5 meetings every week. We went to Big Book meetings, 12&12 meetings, men's meetings, speaker meetings, and had coffee and pie after each one. We talked AA and "Life 101." And in that effort, I grew up. I acted my way into right thinking just as they said I would. Give this way of life a try. Don't concentrate on self -- that's a dead alley. Concentrate on being the BEST you can be. Then, in a year, let's discuss this topic again. It works.

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