Perhaps you should look at the still-suffering addict in much the same light, regardless of your personal feelings toward them.īut those that pray should not just be praying for those who wronged them. Your own disease has had no lack of consequences, but those who have chosen to forgive you were able to realize that you were simply a sick individual, a good person who came down with a troubling compulsion and then lost your way. By praying for the individual who has brought you harm through their own disease, you may come to realize that you have more in common with them than you wish to admit. Some say that praying for the person you resent is actually one of the best pathways to forgiveness. In other words, there is no shortage of members who know other addicts and alcoholics against whom they are still harboring resentments that they cannot seem to let go. This can be hard for many of us, as there are more than a handful of addicts and alcoholics who could easily qualify for Al-Anon or Nar-Anon. To many, the common assumption when hearing this moment dedicated to those who are still suffering is that they should be using the moment of silence to pray for such individuals. Prayer is a fairly common use for the moment of silence.
As such, we would like to offer three possible ways in which you may embrace the moment of silence to its fullest. Even so, a rough idea is just that-rough. This should give you a relative idea as to how this moment is to be used. But depending upon the meeting you attend, you may hear your chairperson specifically declare a moment of silence for the addict or alcoholic who is still suffering. The point is that any thoughts running through most members’ heads during the moment of silence are idle at best. Maybe they’re planning where to eat when they leave the meeting, or wondering why Criminal Minds bothered producing another spin-off. As such, they may just sit there during the moment of silence without really thinking about anything. Much like the Serenity Prayer and the Preamble, some recovering addicts and alcoholics have begun to see this as simply part of the routine. Perhaps some don’t, but we have never been to a meeting at which this was not seen as a vital part of the process. Perhaps, however, we can still offer some advice regarding what you might be doing in the course of that moment.īefore the Serenity Prayer, just about every meeting starts out with a moment of silence. But what happens when there is no text to break down? How, for instance, would we break down a moment of silence? Well, the short answer is that we wouldn’t. Each of these articles was similar in that we were able to take the associated texts and break them down into three key parts each.
Starting with the AA Preamble, we worked backward to the Serenity Prayer. The past couple of articles have detailed what happens at the beginning of an AA or NA meeting. In that spirit, you should be sure to make the most of it. The moment of silence at the beginning of every meeting belongs to you.
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