Honesty

Honesty is the most important part of recovery.  If we cannot be honest with ourselves during our most private moments we will forever be drunk.

Memories

My fondest memory of alcohol was when the desire to drink was taken away.

Just plain rotten

When I drank I let alcohol do my talking and thinking.  I was the type of guy who could follow you into a revolving door and come out ahead.  Alcohol rendered me heartless.

I do not know much

I started drinking in the 8th grade.  I dropped out of high school when I was 17.  I was kicked out of the military after serving just 14 months.  Alcohol had a hand in all of this.  I do not know much, but I do know, that booze breaks lives.  It damages the soul and crushes the heart.  It shortens our existence and peppers us with misery.
I also know that prayer and honesty can put an end to all of the misery and forever take away the desire to drink and be drunk.

My best friend

My best friend tried to kill me.  My best friend was alcohol and it created more enemies over the years than I could count.  But in the end the biggest enemy I had was alcohol itself.

Hope

Without alcohol there is hope.  And sometimes hope is all we need to get by.

I prayed

I prayed at my lowest moment that God would and could remove the desire to drink from me.  He can and He did.  And He will do the same  for you if you simply ask from the heart!