Half measures avail us nothing

We stood at the turning point.

We might often wish there were; we might even fool ourselves from time to time into thinking that there is. We must go in a completely different direction and let go absolutely if we want to know the joys of life as God intended them for us. The quoted phrases above come from Chapter 5 in Alcoholics Anonymous, just before the authors set out the twelve steps they undertook to recover from alcoholism:. At some of these we balked. We thought we could find an easier, softer way. But we could not….