Last night I stayed up late working on some things for my home group.  This is something that I haven't been able to do in a long time.

This morning I thought a little again about the problem of dealing with the addict.  I thought that people attribute the behavior to environment, personality, and then a problem with being.  And since they are most accustomed to dealing with the external world they always gravitate to that first, then they speculate about personality and try to talk, coerce, convince, plead, medicate or threaten the person sober, then they are clueless about how addiction works in the mind so little effort is ever applied in this area.  Addiction is a problem of the mind and of the will so this is where primary effort should be placed.

In the afternoon I gradually felt more and more achy and run down.

I got to have a good talk to a friend in the program.

Thanks be to God.