I am an alcoholic, and my name is Geoff.

When I used to drink -- for over three decades -- I must have had fears. Certainly I had anxieties about people, places and things. But I treated FEAR literally: Forget Everything And Run. I'd run to the nearest watering hole (or wherever I kept my bottle) and drown any fears forthwith. So, whatever fears I had when I was drinking don't count. It's this AA program that calls for action, for Walking the Walk. The other day in here, I shared my one greatest fear I have in sobriety: fear of economic insecurity. I asked you people for advice, and how The Promises states that this fear will leave us. You pointed out that God will remove the fear (if not my financial problems). That was a trigger for this alcoholic ... it was enough for me to turn over to my Higher Power ... in a moment of prayer ... this fear I have of economic insecurity. I can't explain why, but I haen't had that fear, that anxiety, in the past two weeks. Just the opposite: I have come to realize that what will be will be, there's nothing I can do to change it, it's in God's hands. It was you people, right here online the other afternoon, which proved this program -- once again -- works. I have always fought fear with another four-letter word: HOPE. I have hope now that my fear of economic insecurity will be put in its proper place. Thanks for letting me share.

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