SOBRIETY

Snippet: 

Stinkin' thinkin' leads to drinking.

Scripture:

Who has woe? Who has sorrow?

    Who has strife? Who has complaints?

    Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

 Those who linger over wine,

    who go to sample bowls of mixed wine.

 Do not gaze at wine when it is red,

    when it sparkles in the cup,

    when it goes down smoothly!

 In the end it bites like a snake

    and poisons like a viper.

 Your eyes will see strange sights,

    and your mind will imagine confusing things.

 You will be like one sleeping on the high seas,

    lying on top of the rigging.

 “They hit me,” you will say, “but I’m not hurt!

    They beat me, but I don’t feel it!

When will I wake up

    so I can find another drink?” Proverbs 23-39-45 NIV

Song

Dear Sobriety Pistol Annie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXuN6l-sIdA

My hands are shaking

But I can still pour the mistake that I'm making

And I'll pour one more

It runs in my family, it runs in my blood

And just like my daddy, I can't get enough

Every last drop I say is the last

Then I drive to the store and I fill up my glass

Dear Sobriety

Please come back to me

I left you high and dry

I'm doomed for good this time

I swore I wouldn't be

I'm making a fool of me

I need you desperately

Dear Sobriety

Two years I gave in and I did not sway

And I swore to my family I'd keep it that way

Saved by the good Lord and hurt in their eyes

But life would back splatter and I compromise

If heartache won't kill you, you find something that will

And it turns out this battle is only uphill

Dear Sobriety

Please come back to me

I left you high and dry

I'm doomed for good this time

I swore I wouldn't be

Oh but I'm making a fool of me

I need you desperately

Dear Sobriety

Dear Sobriety

Please come back to me

I left you high and dry

I'm doomed for good this time

I swore I wouldn't be

Oh but I'm making a fool of me

I need you desperately

Dear Sobriety

Sentence Prayer

God grant me the serenity

To accept the things I cannot change;

Courage to change the things I can;

And wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;

Enjoying one moment at a time;

Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;

Taking, as He did, this sinful world

As it is, not as I would have it;

Trusting that He will make all things right

If I surrender to His Will;

So that I may be reasonably happy in this life

And supremely happy with Him

Forever and ever in the next.

Amen. 

Reinhold Neibur